| Date |
Class Content |
Readings/Assignments Due |
| 8/31 |
Introduction: Review Syllabus; Sifting Through the Embers; Chopping
Down a Tree. |
|
| 9/2 |
Considering the role of science. |
EE selections 1 and 3
GNH chapter 2 |
| 9/7 |
Can we really learn from our past? From the present?
Thursday, second half: OPEN FORUM
EXERCISE: WHAT DON'T YOU KNOW?
|
EE selections 17, 23
Diamond (ON RESERVE)
Ludwig (ON RESERVE); EE selection 5 |
| 9/9 |
global warming and biodiversity websites |
| 9/14 |
The alternative viewpoint (1st consideration). |
Lomborg, The Skeptical Environmentalist (selections, ON RESERVE)
Sagoff, “"The Hedgehog and the Fox."”(ON RESERVE)
|
| 9/16 |
OPEN FORUM
PEER REPORTS: LEARNING FROM WHAT WE DON'T
KNOW (UNDER CONSTRUCTION!)
|
|
| 9/21 |
QUAD EXERCISE!
Introduction to Ethics, and the methodology of moral philosophy. |
EE, selections 6-7 |
| 9/23 |
K. Goodpaster, "On Being Morally Considerable"”
(ON RESERVE)
EE selections 12 and 14. |
| 9/28 |
OPEN FORUM |
|
| 9/30 |
Animal Rights, Moral Extensionism |
"Can Animals Think?"” (ON RESERVE)
EE
selections 30-31
NOTE: FIRST TUTORIAL DUE THURSDAY AT 9:40 SHARP! |
| 10/5 |
Animal Rights, Moral Extensionism (continued) |
Selection from Bentham (ON RESERVE)
EE selections 35,
36, 37 |
| 10/7 |
EE selections 38, 62
GNH chapter 13. |
| 10/12 |
Reconsiderations of Rights - QUAD EXERCISE! |
Rodman, “"The Liberation of Nature?"” (ON
RESERVE); EE selection 39 |
| 10/14 |
Reconsiderations of Rights |
Haskall (ON RESERVE).
Suggested reading: DCN chapter
12 |
| 10/19 |
OPEN FORUM |
|
| 10/21 |
Ecocentrism and Deep Ecology - Quad Exercise! |
EE selections 41-43; Callicott, “"Quantum Theory"
(handout). |
| 10/26 |
Ecocentrism and Deep Ecology |
DCN chapter 5; GNH chapter 4
Suggested Reading: GNH chapters 8 and 11. |
| 10/28 |
FORUM—What to do with Aldo Leopold? |
EE selection 45, DCN chapter 9. |
| 10/28 |
SECOND TUTORIAL DUE THURSDAY AT
9:40 SHARP! |
| 11/2 |
Ecofeminism and its Response to Deep Ecology
and Ecocentrism. |
EE, selections 46, 47, 50. |
| 11/4 |
OPEN FORUM |
|
| 11/9 |
Political Responses to Environmental Ethics—First
Takes |
DCN chapters 1-4, and pages 105-114 |
| 11/11 |
| 11/16 |
The Problem of Politics and the New Environmental Political Thought
- Quad Exercise! |
Ophuls, “"Locke's Paradigm Lost" (ON RESERVE);
EE selections 55, 63. |
| 11/18 |
The Problem of Politics and the New Environmental Political Thought |
DCN chs. 6-8 |
| 11/23 |
Reality Check: Reason or Revelation? |
GNH chapters 3, 5, 9. |
| 11/25 |
THANKSGIVING! |
|
| 11/30 |
OPEN FORUM |
GNH chapter 10. |
12/2
12/7
12/9 |
“"Requiem for Democracy or the Promise of Green Politics?"” |
EE selection 11; DCN chapter 16. |
| TURN IN FINAL TUTORIAL IN LIEU
OF FINAL |
