PHIL 3301 is also offered in Fall 2024
PHIL 3301 is also offered in Spring 2024
PHIL 3301 is also offered in Summer 2023
PHIL 3301 is also offered in Spring 2023
Spring 2024 | PHIL 3301 Section 001: Environmental Ethics (65400)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 09:20AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 220
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (35 of 35 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Philosophical basis for membership in moral community. Theories applied to specific problems (e.g., vegetarianism, wilderness preservation). Students defend their own reasoned views about moral relations between humans, animals, and nature.
- Class Description:
- This is an introductory course in environmental ethics. We will use critical philosophical methodology to examine contemporary problems related to the environment, such as the treatment of animals, the value of ecosystems, climate change, conservation, and how philosophical analysis can help address environmental problems. The course begins with a question of value: What (if anything) makes nature independently valuable? How should we treat animals? Are other natural objects, like ecosystems morally valuable? A variety of answers have been put forward, and we will critically examine them. The second part of the course focuses on how we should respond to nature on issues of restoration, preservation, and conservation. And the final portion of the course deals with applied problems: population ethics, biotechnology, and the most pressing environmental issue of our day, climate change. This course will familiarize students with philosophical methodology, especially critical analysis, and cover a wide range of questions related to how people understand, use, and live in the environment.
- Grading:
- 16% Reading Response, 32% Short Written Assignments, 12% In-class work, 20% Paper, 20% Final Exam
- Exam Format:
- Multiple choice, true/false, and short answer questions
- Class Format:
- Discussion. Success in this course requires regular attendance and active participation in class discussion.
- Workload:
- 30+ pages of reading per week, approximately 1.25 pages written work per week, final examination
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65400/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 30 November 2023
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