Schedule of Readings

Tentative

Pollution and Global Warming

1/12 - 1/16

• Baxter, "People or Penguins: The Case for Optimal Pollution" (P5 519-523)
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change, "Understanding the Causes of Global Climate Change" (P5 569-573)
• Gardiner, "Ethics and Global Climate Change" (P5 573-597)

Traditional Ethical Theory

1/21 - 1/26

• Pojman, "What is Ethics?" (P5 4-8)
• Lee, Kantian Ethical Theory (web)
• Schönfeld, "The Green Kant: Environmental Dynamics and Sustainable Policies" (P5 49-60)

Treatment of Human Beings

1/28 - 2/4

• Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons" (P5 389-399)
• Hardin, "Lifeboat Ethics" (P5 443-452)
• Murdock & Oaten, "Population and Food: A Critique of Lifeboat Ethics" (P5 452-458)
• Engel, "Hunger, Duty, and Ecology: On What We Owe Starving Humans" (P5 458-476)
• Wolf, "Population and the Environment" (P5 431-441)

Treatment of Animals

2/6 - 2/13

• Kant, "Rational Beings Alone Have Moral Worth" (P5 62-65)
• Wilson, "The Green Kant: Kant's Treatment of Animals" (P5 65-72)
• Singer, "A Utilitarian Defense of Animal Liberation" (P5 73-82)
• Regan, "The Radical Egalitarian Case for Animal Rights" (P5 82-90)
• Warren, "A Critique of Regan's Animal Rights Theory" (P5 90-97)

First Examination

2/16

Biodiversity

2/18 - 2/20

• Meadows, "Biodiversity: The Key to Saving Life on Earth" (P5 267-269)
• Russow, "Why Do Species Matter?" (P5 269-276)

Treatment of Living Things

2/23 - 2/27

• Carson, "Silent Spring" (P5 526-531)
• Pimentel, "Is Silent Spring Behind Us?" (P5 531-536)
• Ray & Guzzo, "The Blessings of Pesticides" (P5 562-567)
• Schweitzer, "Reverence for Life" (P5 131-138)
• Goodpaster, "On Being Morally Considerable" (P5 154-163)

Treatment of Nature

3/2 - 3/13

• White, "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis" (P5 14-21)
• Leopold, "Ecocentrism: The Land Ethic" (P5 163-172)
• Callicott, "The Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic" (P5 173-185)
• Hettinger & Throop, "Refocusing Ecocentrism: De-emphasizing Stability and Defending Wildness" (P5 186-199)
• Nelson, "The Great New Wilderness Debate: An Overview" (P5 200-208)
• Rolston, "Naturalizing Values: Organisms and Species" (P5 107-120)
• Hettinger, "Comments on Holmes Rolston's `Naturalizing Values'" (P5 120-123)
• De Silva, "The Buddhist Attitude Toward Nature" (P5 319-323)
• Naess, "The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecological Movement" (P5 215-219)
• Naess, "Ecosophy T: Deep Versus Shallow Ecology" (P5 219-228)
• Devall & Sessions, "Deep Ecology" (P5 228-233)

Second Examination

3/23

Genetically Modified Organisms

3/25 - 4/1

• Rauch, "Can Frankenfood Save the Planet?" (P5 476-483)
• Ho, "The Unholy Alliance" (P5 483-492)

Environmental Justice

4/3 - 4/8

• Bradford, "We All Live in Bhopal" (P5 514-518)
• Guhu, "Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique" (P5 338-345)
• Rees, "Sustainable Development: Economic Myths and Ecological Realities" (P5 603-611)
• Sagoff, "At the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, or Why Political Questions are Not All Economic" (P5 619-628)
• Wenz, "Just Garbage: The Problem of Environmental Racism" (P5 596-604)

Environmental Action

4/10 - 4/15

• Foreman, "Strategic Monkeywrenching" (P5 756-760)
• Martin, "Ecosabotage and Civil Disobedience" (P5 742-756)
• Pojman, "Pedaling Power: Sustainable Transportation" (P5 739-742)
• Pojman, "The Challenge of the Future: Private Property, the City, the Globe, and a Sustainable Society" (P5 721-732)
• Durning, "An Ecological Critique of Global Advertising" (P5 713-720)
• Brown, "A Vision of a Sustainable World" (P5 760-768)

Remaining Student Presentations

4/17 - 4/29

Third Examination

5/7

This schedule is subject to change, especially because of yet-to-be scheduled student presentations.

All readings are from the Pojman collection (P5) unless otherwise indicated.

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Richard Lee, rlee@uark.edu, last modified: 11 January 2009