Environmental Ethics

Reading

Environmental Ethics- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-environmental/

Environmental Ethics- University of California
http://cnx.org/content/m16743/latest/

Environmental Ethics- Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_ethics#Libertarian_extension

Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic- EoE
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Aldo_Leopold%27s_Land_Ethic

The Land Ethic- by Aldo Leopold, taken from Sand County Almanac

Anthropocentric versis Non-Anthropocentric Environmental Ethics
http://ocw.capcollege.bc.ca/philosophy/phil-208-environmental-ethics/non-anthropocentric.htm

Environmental Ethics and Gaia Theory- EoE
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Environmental_ethics_and_the_Gaia_theory

Deep Ecology- EoE
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Deep_ecology

Ecofeminism- Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofeminism

The Gaia Hypothesis
http://erg.ucd.ie/arupa/references/gaia.html

Expected Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course a fully engaged student should be able to

- distinguish between anthropocentric, biocentric, and ecocentric environmental ethics

- distinguish between the development, preservation, and conservation environmental ethic

- discuss the Judeo-Christian Environmnental Ethic

- briefly discuss Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism

- be able to clearly articulate their own personal environmental ethic