Schedule of Readings
PHL 450/550
Date	Topic	Pine Island Paradox	Selected readings
Mon 3/29	Introduction
Wed 3/31	How can I understand my place in nature?
	Views of the relation of humans to the natural world.
	Earth family	Sound of Human Longing	Momaday,"A First American"
Mon 4/5	Christian views	Stalking Seals	McFague, "World as God's Body"
		Finis/Genesis	White, "Historical Roots"
Wed 4/7	Enlightenment views	Late at Night, Listening	Merchant, "Science and Worldviews"
			Bacon, TBA
Mon 4/12	Deep ecology	Refrigerator Fungus	Devall, "Deep Ecology . . ."
		Amazing Grace
		The Sacred and the Mundane
Wed 4/14	Social ecology	Moral Equivalent of Wildness	Bookchin, "Social Ecology vs. . ."
Mon 4/19	Consider: Theory to Practice
Wed 4/21	How can I understand my responsibilities to nature?
	Possible ethical frameworks for an environmental ethic
	Utilitarianism	Parables of the Rats and Mice	Mill, "What Utilitarianism Is"
			Leonard, Zeckhauser, “Cost-benefit”
Mon 4/26	Rights-based ethics	World Depends on This	Earth Charter
			Feinberg, "The Rights of Animals"
			Midgley, "Duties concerning Islands"
			Regan, "Case for Animal Rights"
Wed 4/28	Virtue-based ethics	Learning to Dance	Hill, "Ideals of Human Excellence . . . "
		Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Mon 5/3	Leopold's land ethic	Songs in the Night	Leopold, "The Land Ethic"
			Callicott, "Conceptual Foundations"

Wed 5/5	Ethic of care	This Improvisational Heart	Hogan, "The Kill Hole"
		What It Means to Love a Place	Noddings, "Caring"
		Shy Affectionate SF
		Toward an Ecological Ethic of Care
Mon 5/10	Consider: Theory to Practice
Wed 5/12	How, then, shall I live?
	Issues related to responsibilities in biocultural communities
	Wilderness	Where Should I Live?	Owen, "Burning the Shelter"
		Road to Cape Perpetua	Guha, ". . . Third World Critique”
			Nelson, "Wilderness Arguments"
			Muir, "Wind-storm in the Forests"
Mon 5/17	Restoration	Blowing the Dam	House, "More than Numbers”
		This Will Not Come Again	Light, "Ecological Restoration . . . "
Wed 5/19	Social justice	A Christmas Story	LaDuke, “Indigenous Environmental . . .”
			Bullard, “Justice and Env. Decision Making”
Mon 5/24	Corporate responsibility and personal choices
		Nuts and Grubs	Elgin, “The Garden of Simplicity”
			Stone, “Why Shouldn’t Corporations . . .”
			Mies and Shiva, “Introduction to Ecofeminism”
Wed 5/26	How shall I live?	Night of the Razor Clam Tide
		Fire and Water
		Four Autumn Stories
		One Night of 365
		Another World Could Start Right Here