Environmental Ethics
PHIL 323 / INDS 323
David Schmidtz
Elizabeth Willott
Matt Zwolinski

Course Schedule, Fall 2001

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The readings below are for Fall 2001; the relevant reading questions will be updated to Fall 2001 questions soon.
1 8.21

Introduction: Easterbrook: A Moment on the Earth
and Leopold: Thinking Like a Mountain

EW/DS
    Cycle 1: Extending the Realm of Rights  
2 8.23 Leopold: The Land Ethic EW
3 8.28 Singer: All Animals are Equal
Deadline to contact David or Elizabeth re Honors Projects
MZ
4 8.30 Sagoff: Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce DS
  9.4 Taylor: The Ethics of Respect for Nature DS
5 9.6 Schmidtz: Are All Species Equal? DS
6 9.11 Review (Assignment due Sept 13)  
    Cycle 2: Lifestyle Issues  
7 9.13 Lyman: Mad Cowboy DS/EW
8 9.18 Milbrath: Redefining the Good Life in a Sustainable Society
For the overheads from class
EW
9 9.20

Hill: Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments

JB
10 9.25

Mathews: Letting the World Grow Old: An Ethos of Countermodernity

DS
11 9.27 Review (Assignment due Oct 2)
For web page used in class
 
    Cycle 3: Property Rights  
12 10.2 Sagoff: Do We Consume Too Much? overheads from class EW
13 10.4 Hardin: The Tragedy of the Commons MZ
14 10.9 Bailey: Approximate Optimality of Aboriginal Property Rights also web pages on World Population Info DS
15 10.11 Schmidtz: The Institution of Property
For Property-Related Terms
DS
16 10.16 Review (Assignment due Oct 18)  
    Cycle 4: International Issues  
17 10.18 Sen: Women, Poverty, and Population: Issues for the Concerned Feminist EW
18 10.23 Rao: Women Farmer's of India's Deccan Plateau DS
19 10.25 Guha: Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation MZ
20 10.30 Schmidtz: When Preservationism Doesn't Preserve DS
21 11.1 Whyte: Headaches and Heartaches: The Elephant Management Dilemma
Willott: Slide Show on Africa
EW
22 11.6 Review (Assignment due Nov 8)  
    Cycle 5: Theory and Practice  
23 11.8

Philip Cafaro: Thoreau, Leopold and Carson: Towards an Environmental Virtue Ethics

PC
  11.13

Kelman: Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique.

DS
24 11.15 Schmidtz: A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis DS
25 11.20 Norton: Toward Unity Among Environmentalists, p. 3-13, The Environmentalists' Dilemma: Dollars and Sand Dollars DS
26 11.22 THANKSGIVING  
27 11.27 Norton: Toward Unity Among Environmentalists, p. 244-255, Fragile Freedoms DS
28 11.29 Schmidtz: Natural Enemies EW
29 12.4 Review and Discussion (Assignment due Dec. 6) EW/DS
30 12.6 Final Assignment Due EW/DS
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