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1 UPI 2205 Ethics and the Environment Schedule of Readings and Assignments Unit 1 Introduction: Anthropocentricism in Western Thought Week 1 Jan 13 White, The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis, Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 3, Part II, Chapter CXII (no need to read in advance) Genesis, chapter 1 (no need to read in advance) Week 1 Jan 15 Berman, The Reenchantment of the World, pp ONLY Kant, Rational Beings Alone Have Moral Worth, Section II only Descartes, Discourse on the Method, Part V, pp and selected correspondences, pp , Unit 2 Introduction again: Selected Ethical Theories Week 2 Jan 20 Utilitarianism Shafer-Landau, Consequentialism, pp Week 2 Jan 22 Deontology Davis, Contemporary Deontology, pp Week 3 Jan 27 Rights Raz, On the Nature of Rights, pp Unit 3 Animal Ethics Week 3 Jan 29 Utilitarianism Singer, All Animals are Equal, pp.1-23 Singer, Becoming a Vegetarian, pp (can read more quickly) Week 4 Feb 3 Speciesism 1
2 Steinbock, Speciesism and the Idea of Equality pp Norcross, Puppies, Pigs and People, pp Week 4 Feb 5 The Rights View: Theory Regan, The Case for Animal Rights, pp Regan, The Case for Animal Rights, pp , , only Week 5 Feb 10 The Rights View: Application Regan, The Case for Animal Rights, pp (vegetarianism) OR (use of animals in research) (more details later) Week 5 Feb 12 Alternative Views on Vegetarianism and Animal Testing Hare, Why I Am only a Demi-vegetarian? Cohen, The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research, pp Week 6 Feb 17 Virtue Ethics and the Capabilities Approach Hursthouse, Virtue Ethics and the Treatment of Other Animals, pp Nussbaum, Beyond Compassion and Humanity : Justice for Nonhuman Animals, pp Week 6 Feb 19 Taking stock: a comparison Paper 1 due Feb 20 Unit 4 Intrinsic Value and Moral Standing of Nature Week 7 Mar 2 Naturalism Rolston, Naturalizing Values: Organisms and Species, pp instructor s introduction of Leopold s land ethic (no need to do the readings) Week 7 Mar 4 Taylor s Biocentricism: a Kantian approach Taylor, The Ethics of Respect for Nature, pp instructor s introduction of Naess deep ecology (no need to do the readings) Week 8 Mar 9 Taylor s Biocentricism: How to Adjudicate Conflicts Taylor, Respect for Nature, pp (can read relatively quickly, please make sure that you know what the main points of each section are) 2
3 Week 8 Mar 11 Another Biocentricism: a Utilitarian Variation Varner, Biocentric Individualism, pp Week 9 Mar 16 Other views Warren, The Power and Promise of Ecological Feminism, pp Elliot, Faking Nature, pp Unit 5 Climate Change (The instructor may make certain changes to this part of the syllabus.) Week 9 Mar 18 The Challenges Gardiner, A Perfect Moral Storm, pp Hardin, Tragedy of the Commons, pp Gardiner, Ethics and Global Climate Change, pp (recommended but not required) Week 10 Mar 23 Critique of Some Past Treatises Victor, The Collapse of Kyoto Protocol, pp.3-24 Paris climate change deal too weak to help poor, critics warn (Guardian) Week 11 Mar 30 Economic Approaches Kelman, Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique, pp Gardiner, A Core Precautionary Principle, pp.33-37, 45-49, only Sunstein, Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment, pp , 61-65, only Week 11 Apr 1 Human Rights Approach Caney, Climate Change, Human Rights, and Moral Thresholds, pp Week 12 Apr 6 Distribution and International Inequality Shue, Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions, pp Shue, Global Environment and International Inequality pp Week 12 Apr 8 Cosmopolitan Justice Caney: Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility and Climate Change, pp Week 13 Apr 13 Individual Actions 3
4 Kagan, Do I Make a Difference? pp Week 13 Apr 15 Paper Workshop or one-on-one meeting Paper 2 due in Week 14. Requirements 1. Papers 1 and 2 (50%): Students have to write two short papers of words each. 2. Reading Responses (15%): for ten of class sessions (out of a total of twenty-five), students have to come up with one good and interesting question on the readings (no more than 30 words). They then have to succinctly sketch out an answer to their own question ( words). students are welcome to choose which of the ten classes (i.e., ten sets of readings) they would like to write their responses on, as long as five of these responses are written before the recess, and the other five after the recess. the objective of the exercise is to help you prepare for the class discussions. please upload the question and answer for the readings of a particular class session onto the Reading Responses file on IVLE four hours before the class, that is, by 12 noon. Reading responses uploaded after 12noon that day will NOT be graded. your reading responses will be graded on their thoughtfulness, precision and conciseness. Please make sure that both your question and answer are precisely and concisely articulated. if you are facilitating the class discussion on that day, please do not write your reading response or upload it onto IVLE. It will NOT be graded. 3. Class Participation (15%): Assessed by classroom contributions. 4. Facilitation of Class Discussion (20%): students will be facilitating the class discussion for one time during the semester either by themselves or in groups of two. Each student is responsible for about 30 minutes of the class time and will need to meet with the instructor before the class. Detailed instructions will be given in a separate handout. 4
5 5. Attendance: only three absences are allowed, whether excused or unexcused. Four absences may result in a grade deduction. Readings Uploaded on IVLE Aquinas, St. Thomas. Summa Contra Gentiles. Third Book, Volumne Two, Chapter CXII. Berman, Morris. The Reenchantment of the World. Ithaca: Cornell UP, Caney, Simon. Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility and Climate Change. Leiden Journal of International Law. 18 (2005): Climate Change, Human Rights, and Moral Thresholds. Human Rights and Climate Change. Ed. Stephen Humphreys. Cambridge UP, Cohen, Carl. The Case for the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research. New England Journal of Medicine. 315 (1986): Davis, Nancy. Contemporary Deontology. A Companion to Ethics. Ed. Peter Singer. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Descartes, Rene. Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy. Trans. Donald Cress. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co Correspondence. The Philosophical Writings of Descartes. Vol. II. Ed. & trans. John Cottingham, Robert Stoothoff and Dugald Murdoch. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, , Elliot, Robert. Faking Nature. Inquiry. 25(1982): Gardiner, Stephen M. Ethics and Global Climate Change. Ethics. 114(2004): A Core Precautionary Principle, Journal of Political Philosophy (2006): A Perfect Moral Storm. Environmental Ethics. 15(2006): Hare, R.M. Why I Am only a Demi-vegetarian? Singer and His Critics. Ed. Dale Jamieson Blackwell, Hardin, Garrett. Tragedy of the Commons. Science. New Series, Vol. 162, No (Dec. 13, 1968): Hursthouse, Rosalind. Virtue Ethics and the Treatment of Other Animals. The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics. Ed. Tom Beauchamp and R. G. Frey. Oxford: OUP, Kagan, Shelly. Do I Make a Difference? Philosophy & Public Affairs. 39.2(2011): Kelman, Steven. Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique. AEI Journal on Government and Society Regulation. 5.1(1981): Leopold, Aldo. The Land Ethic. Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works. New York and Oxford: OUP, Norcross, Alastair. Puppies, Pigs and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases. Philosophical Perspectives (2004): Nussbaum, Martha. Beyond Compassion and Humanity : Justice for Nonhuman Animals. 5
6 Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions. Ed. Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussabum. Oxford: OUP, Raz, Joseph. On the Nature of Rights. Mind. 93(1984): Regan, Tom. The Case for Animal Rights. Berkeley: U of Cal P, 1983, 1985, , , Regan, Tom. The Case for Animal Rights, pp Rolston, Holmes III. Naturalizing Values: Organisms and Species. Environmental Ethics: Readings in Theory and Application. Ed. Louis P. Pojman. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing/Thomson Learning, Shafer-Landau, Russ. The Fundamentals of Ethics. New York: OUP, Shue, Henry. Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions. Law and Policy (1993): Global Environment and International Inequality. International Affairs. 75.3(1999): Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation. New York: Harper Collins, & Sunstein, Cass. Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment. Ethics. 115(2005): Steinbock, Bonnie. Speciecism and the Idea of Equality. Philosophy. 53 (1978): Taylor, Paul W. The Ethics of Respect for Nature. Environmental Ethics. 3 (1981): Respect for Nature. Princeton: Princeton UP, Varner, Gary. Biocentric Individualism. Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works. Ed. David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott. Oxford: OUP, Victor, David. The Collapse of Kyoto Protocol and the Struggle to Slow Global Warming. Princeton: Princeton UP, White, Lynn Jr. The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis. Science. New Series (1967): Additional Notes If you have any questions at any point in the semester, please feel free to come see me or me. Please be precise and concise in your , and give me twenty-four hours to respond. If you would like to speak with me in person, please write to me and make an appointment in advance. Do not just stop by. I may not be in my office. 6
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