Terrill Hall 316, TR 12:301:50 p.m.)
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Studies
University of North Texas
Office: 331 Terrill Hall (565-4846)
Office Hours: 3:00-4:00 MTW and by appointment
OBJECTIVE
To read and discuss some outstanding efforts to formulate an environmental ethic and to apply environmental ethical theory to real-world environmental conflicts.
TEXTS
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac with Essays on Conservation from Round River (Ballantine, 1966)
Jan E. Dizzard, Going Wild (Massachusetts University Press, 1994)
Eugene C. Hargrove, ed., The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate (State University of New York Press, 1992)
Eugene C. Hargrove, Foundations of Environmental Ethics (Prentice-Hall, 1989)
Mark Sagoff, The Economy of the Earth: Philosophy, Law, and the Environment (Cambridge University Press, 1988)
REQUIREMENTS
1. A 5-minute, multiple-choice/true-false reading quiz will be announced for each reading assignment. No late reading quizes will be accepted, but the worst two grades will be dropped. The average of the remaining grades will = 1/4 course grade.
2. Three tests--essay, take-home, open-book--will be administered, one after each section of the course, outlined below. Each = 1/4 course grade.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Week Topics
1. Introduction to environmental ethics.
2. Aldo Leopold, seminal thinker
Read: A Sand County Almanac, Forward, Part I.
3. Aldo Leopold, seminal thinker
Read: A Sand County Almanac, Part II
4. Aldo Leopold, seminal thinker
Read: A Sand County Almanac, Part III
5. Aldo Leopold, seminal thinker
Read: A Sand County Almanac, Part IV
6. REVIEW/FIRST TEST
7. Quabbin Reservoir: A Case Study
Read: Dizzard, Going Wild, Preface, chs. 1-3
8. Quabbin Reservoir: A Case Study
Read: Dizzard, Going Wild, Preface, chs. 4-6
9. The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate
Read: Hargrove, The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate, ch. 2
10. The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate
Read: The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate, chs. 10 & 8
11. The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate
Read: The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate, chs. 9 &11
12. Review / Second Test
13-15. To be Announced
16. THIRD TEST
Regular attendance is strongly recommended. Because material on tests will draw from information and interpretation developed in class, absenteeism may affect your grade. All graded work may be reviewed upon appeal to insure against error.