PHI 140 - Environmental Ethics

Introduction to ethical analysis of environmental values and decision-making. Likely topics include (1) the value of different aspects of the environment including non-human animals, species, non-living natural objects, and ecosystems; (2) ethical analysis of different approaches to risk as this bears on environmental policy-making; (3) the moral merits and liabilities of ethical institutions, such as private property rights, as applied to the natural environment.

Prerequisites & Notes
Counts as a humanities course (or as an elective) in the Environmental Studies Concentration. (Not offered 2010-11.)