Lecture Notes
UNIT ONE: ETHICS & THE ENVIRONMENT
Week 1
Arguments
Ethical Relativism
Week 2
Utilitarianism
Deontology
Anthropocentric Environmental Ethics
Week 3
Against Animal Rights (Cohen)
Against Speciesism (Singer)
For Animal Rights (Regan)
Week 4
For Moderate Speciesism (Anderson)
Against Factory-Farming (Norcross)
Animal Death
Week 5
Biocentrism
Week 6
Ecocentrism
Ecofeminism
Week 7
Faking Nature
Zoos
The Value of Species
UNIT TWO: CLIMATE ETHICS
Week 9
Intro to Climate Change
Individual Climate Duties
Week 10
The Non-Identity Problem
Uncertainty (and Expected Value)
The Discount Rate
Week 11
Procreation
Week 12
Individual Causal Impotence
Reply to Sinnott-Armstrong
Causal Impotence and Procreation
Week 13
Group Responsibility & Global Justice
Week 14
Geoengineering
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