Readings




Weeks 1 & 2

A. Leopold (1949), Ecocentrism: The Land Ethic . Environmental Ethics , Pojman & Pojman (eds), Wadsworth: USA.  (p. 163-172)

B. Callicott (1987), Conceptual Foundations of the Land Ethic. Environmental Ethics , Pojman & Pojman (eds), Wadsworth: USA.  (p. 173-181).


B. Lomborg (1998), The Skeptical Environmentalist. Cambridge: Mass (p. 3-22).

                          Here is the bibliography for Skeptical Environmentalist (all 70 pages!)

Week 3

 
M. Sagoff,  (184), Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce. Environmental EThics: What really matters, What Really Works, D. Schmidtz & W. Willott (eds), Oxford press: NY. -144)

J. Kricher (1998), "Nothing endures except change." Northeastern Naturalist 5(2): 165-174.


Weeks 4 & 5

 Arne Naess, "The world of concrete contents". Inquiry, 28: p. 417 (1984).

 E. Sober  (1986),Philosophical Problems for Environmentalism",  (p. 179-191).
   
         *Note that I have uploaded this excellent article in its entirety, you might want to
           read the whole thing. You are responsible for pages 171-191.

Yuirko Saito (1998), "The Aesthetics of Unscenic Nature." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Critciism 56(2): 101- 111.

Week 7
G. Monbiot (2006), Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning. Anchor Canada (p. ix-xiii, 29-55).


Week 8

J. Woodward & D. Goldstein (2002), "Conduct, misconduct and the structure of science." in S. 
Armstrong & R. Boltzer (eds) Environmental Ethics:  Divergence and Convergence (p. 12-22).

Week 9

E. Crist (2007), "Beyond the climate crisis: A critique of climate change discourse." Telos 141: 29-55.


Week 10

W.F.  Baxter, Economics and Ecology & People or Penguins  (p. 108-118)

        M. Sagoff, Why Political questions are not all economic  (p. 24-45)

          Week 11

        M.Sagoff, Can we put a Price on nature’s services? (p. 87-109) 

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