Instructors:

Richard Lee (Office hours)
David Miller (Office hours)

Course number:

PHIL 3933 (SAFARI number: 2893)

ENSC 400V-SP (SAFARI number: 7694)

Time:

MWF 11:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Room:

AGRI 332

Brief Description:

This course addresses ethical questions about nature and the natural environment. Is it wrong to cut down trees? If so, why? What about the treatment of non-human animals? Is it wrong to use them for whatever purposes we wish? Pollution. Pesticides. Global Warming. Population control. These are some of the issues that we will address. The approach will be philosophical. As a class we will be looking for answers to these normative ethical issues. The course is co-taught by a professor in philosophy and one in the department of Crops, Soils, and Environmental Science.

Text:

Pojman, Louis P., editor, Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application, third edition (Wadsworth, 2001) ISBN: 0-534-54371-5

Other information:

• Requirements
• Important Dates
• Reading Schedule
• Policies
• Term Papers
• Lee's Office Hours
• Miller's Office Hours
• Ethical Theory Notes (from another class)
• Why Do Philosophy?
• First Exam
• Second Exam
• Leopold debate
• Presentation Schedule
• Third Exam
• Web resources
• General Moral Principles
• Anonymous question/feedback form