Lecture Notes
UNIT ONE: ETHICS & THE ENVIRONMENT
Week 1
Arguments
Ethical Relativism
Week 2
Utilitarianism
Deontology
Week 3
Anthropocentric Environmental Ethics
Against Animal Rights (Cohen)
Against Speciesism (Singer)
Week 4
For Animal Rights (Regan)
For Moderate Speciesism (Anderson)
Against Factory-Farming (Norcross)
Week 5
The Significance of Animal Death
Biocentrism
Week 6
Ecocentrism
Ecofeminism
Week 7
Faking Nature
Week 8
Zoos
Endangered Species
UNIT TWO: CLIMATE CHANGE ETHICS
Week 9
Intro to Climate Change
Week 10
The Non-Identity Problem
Uncertainty
Future Discount Rate
Week 11
Procreation
Week 12
Individual Causal Impotence
Reply to Sinnott-Armstrong
Week 13
Causal Impotence and Procreation
Week 14
Geoengineering
Week 15
Global Responsibility
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