Environmental Studies 202 - Environmental Ethics

Institution:

Colgate University

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J. Kawall This course is an introduction to the field of environmental ethics. Some of the major figures and philosophies in the environmental movement will be studied and critically analyzed with a particular emphasis on the ethical reasoning and its influences on environmental policies and practices. Topics will include the historical development of the environmental movement, central debates between preservationist and conservationist ethics, intrinsic and instrumental evaluations of the natural environment and its inhabitants, animal rights and the ethical treatment of animals, shallow and deep ecological distinctions, and anthropocentric versus biocentric and ecocentric evaluations of nature. These considerations will involve the study of the arenas of environmental ethics, such as radical ecology, social ecology, ecofeminism, holism, ethical pluralism, environmental justice, traditional environmental knowledge, ethics of consumption, anti-toxics grassroots activism, and global ecological ethics. This course is crosslisted as PHIL 202.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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