Environmental Ethics	Richard Lee & David Miller
Philosophy 3113 / ENSC 3933	Spring 2007

Schedule of Readings

Tentative

Pollution and Global Warming

1/17 - 1/22

• Newton et al., "Of Greenhouses and Freezers: The Perils of Global Climate Change" (W4 1-15)
• Ray & Guzzo, "The Greenhouse Effect: Hype and Hysteria" (P4 518-526)
• Baxter, "People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution" (P4 473-477)

Traditional Ethical Theory

1/24 - 1/29

• Pojman, "What is Ethics?" (P4 4-12)
• Lee, Kantian Ethical Theory (web)

Treatment of Human Beings

1/31 - 2/9

• Newton et al., "Are We the Problem?: Addressing the New Population Dilemma" (W4 141-156)
• Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons" (P4 364-373)
• Hardin, "Lifeboat Ethics" (P4 412-420)
• Murdock & Oaten, "Population and Food: A Critique of Lifeboat Ethics" (P4 420-425)
• Engel, "Hunger, Duty, and Ecology: On What We Owe Starving Humans" (P4 426-441)
• Wolf, "Population and the Environment" (P4 402-410)

Treatment of Animals

2/12 - 2/19

• Newton et al., "The Extended Family: The Saga of the Great Apes" (W4 98-115)
• Kant, "Rational Beings Alone Have Moral Worth" (P4 54-56)
• Singer, "A Utilitarian Defense of Animal Liberation" (P4 57-65)
• Regan, "The Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights" (P4 65-72)
• Warren, "A Critique of Regan's Animal Rights Theory" (P4 73-78)

First Examination

2/21

Biodiversity

2/23 - 2/23

• Newton et al., "Biological Diversity: Saving the Uniquenessess of the World" (W4 173-196)
• Meadows, "Biodiversity: The Key to Saving Life on Earth" (P4 239-241)
• Russow, "Why Do Species Matter?" (P4 241-248)

Treatment of Living Things

2/26 - 3/2

• Newton et al., "The Ingenuity of the Bugs: Combating Resistance to Antibiotics" (W4 55-77)
• Carson, "Silent Spring" (P4 481-486)
• Pimentel, "Is Silent Spring Behind Us?" (P4 502-506)
• Ray & Guzzo, "The Blessings of Pesticides" (P4 486-490)
• Schweitzer, "Reverence for Life" (P4 100-117)
• Goodpaster, "On Being Morally Considerable" (P4 131-139)

Treatment of Nature

3/4 - 3/31

• White, "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis" (P4 19-25)
• Leopold, "Ecocentrism: The Land Ethic" (P4 139-148)
• Callicott, "The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic" (P4 149-160)
• Rolston, "Naturalizing Values: Organisms and Species" (P4 88-100)
• Hettinger, "Comments on Holmes Rolston's `Naturalizing Values'" (P4 100-102)
• De Silva, "The Buddhist Attitude Toward Nature" (P4 294-297)
• Naess, "The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecological Movement" (P4 188-191)
• Naess, "Ecosophy T: Deep Versus Shallow Ecology" (P4 192-200)
• Devall & Sessions, "Deep Ecology" (P4 200-205)

Second Examination

4/2

Genetically Modified Organisms

4/4 - 4/6

• Newton et al., "Genetically Modified Organisms: The Complex Difficulties of Frankenfood" (W4 16-36)
• Rauch, "Can Frankenfood Save the Planet?" (P4 442-448)

Environmental Justice

4/9 - 4/13

• Bradford, "We All Live in Bhopal" (P4 462-466)
• Guhu, "Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique" (P4 312-318)
• Rees, "Sustainable Development: Economic Myths and Ecological Realities" (P4 546-552)
• Sagoff, "At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions are Not All Economic" (P4 560-568)
• Wenz, "Just Garbage: The Problem of Environmental Racism" (P4 596-604)

Environmental Action

4/16 - 4/20

• Foreman, "Strategic Monkeywrenching" (P4 667-670)
• Pojman, "Pedaling Power: Sustainable Transportation" (P4 663-666)
• Pojman, "The Challenge of the Future: Private Property, the City, the Globe, and a Sustainable Society" (P4 647-657)
• Durning, "An Ecological Critique of Global Advertising" (P4 640-646)
• Brown, "A Vision of a Sustainable World" (P4 670-678)

Remaining Student Presentations

4/23 - 5/2

Third Examination

5/10

This schedule is subject to change, especially because of yet-to-be scheduled student presentations.

All readings are from the Pojman collection (P4) or Watersheds 4 (W4) unless otherwise indicated.

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Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 15 February 2007