Presentation list 12:15 class
Presentation list 1:40 class
Explanation of Midterm Quiz Grades
Explanation of Midterm Exam Scores
Paper Assignment and Some Possible Topics
Suggestions for Writing Your Philosophy Paper
CofC Office of Sustainability
Alliance for Planet Earth
Green CofC
Students - Evaluate your Courses & Faculty Online through Dec 10
Miscellaneous
Final Exam
(See paper syllabus for date)
Ethics, Practical Ethics, Animal Ethics
Clemson University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
28 March 2015
Submission Deadline: 21 January 2015
JUSTICE AND NATURE'S FUTURE
Jamieson, 196-205, (on “Visions of the future”)
Jamieson, pp. 181-196 (on “Travails of the biosphere” and “Questions of justice”)
Jamieson on "The rise and fall of America’s climate deniers: How politics hijacked the fight against global warming "
Climate Nexus, via Jamieson, "Climate Deniers Ascend in Senate Leadership"
Oral Presentations (6) on
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION
No Impact Man trailer and Lessons from Low Impact Week
Derrick Jensen, “Forget Shorter Showers” (if interested, see also: The Story of Change – Video)
“Charged With the Crime of Filming a Slaughterhouse,” Taping of Farm Cruelty Is Becoming the Crime, Mark Bittman, and “Who Protects the Animals” (cruelty and “ag-gag”)
Wendell Berry, Speech Against the State Government
Peter Singer “Ends and Means”
If a Tree Falls (movie trailer and description)
"Would You Ever Break The Law in Support of an Environmental Goal?"
"How can a man be satisfied to entertain an opinion merely, and enjoy it? ... Action from principle. the perception and the performance of right. changes things and relations: ... it divides the individual. separating the diabolical in him from the divine" {Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" 1849}
**Paper due, Friday, Nov 14, 1pm, 14 Glebe, inside mailbox, paper copy
Nov 13
WILDERNESS
William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature”
David Desplaces, "Quality Management Systems or Environment Management Systems for All: Systems Thinking"
Friday, 3pm, Maybank 100
(Free Quiz Opportunity)
Saving Wild Places in the Anthropocene
Science Friday (Audio) with William Cronon
Oral Presentation (5) on Wilderness
Bill McKibben’s “The End of Nature?”(from Holmes Rolston, Conserving Natural Value), “More on McKibben,” and “Climbers clear trash from Everest” (all in one pdf file)
Timothy Egan, “Searching for Eden; The Definition of Wilderness Is Increasingly Elusive”
Rethinking the Wild: The Wilderness Act Is Facing a Midlife Crisis
John Perry, “The Nature of Wilderness”
Pleistocene rewilding: “Rewilding North America"
"Environmentalists in a clash of goals" (wilderness versus green energy)
Gabriel Escobar, “Rain Forest Gift Raises Suspicions”
DAMNATION (trailer)
Wed, Nov 12, 6:30 pm
School of Science and Math Building,
202 Calhoun
Rm 129 (Auditorium on the 1st floor)
(Free Quiz Opportunity)
MEANING & VALUE OF THE NATURAL
Jamieson, pp 162-168 (on “Natural values”)
Jamieson, pp. 175-180 (on “Natives versus exotics”)
Hunting exotic species in Texas as way to protect endangered species? (14 min in class video)
Simon Blackburn, "Moral Knowledge for Sentimentalists"
Fri, Nov 7, 3:15 Alumni Center, 86 Wentworth (corner w/ St. Philip)
Does Hunting Make Us Human?
Friday, Nov 7, 5pm, Simons Center Recital Hall
(Free Quiz Opportunity)
About Jan Dizzard, One, Two
Thur, Nov 6, 7pm, Hettinger at Sierra Club, 284 Calhoun
"Age-of-Man Environmentalism and Respect for an Independent Nature"
(Free Quiz Opportunity)
Watermark (a film)
Wed, Nov 5, 7pm, Charleston Music Hall, Cost $5
(Free Quiz Opportunity)
Jamieson on "The rise and fall of America’s climate deniers: How politics hijacked the fight against global warming "
Climate Nexus, via Jamieson, "Climate Deniers Ascend in Senate Leadership"
Oral Presentations (4) on
MEANING & VALUE OF THE NATURAL
Do what is natural, you say? (reading begins on bottom of second page)
Niagara Falls: America's Most Unnatural Wonder
De-extinction ( 2 ½ min video)
Natives and Exotics: Don’t Judge Species by their Origin
Saving a Drowning Buffalo or Letting Nature Take its Course?
Hope in the Age of Man (The Anthropocene)
The use of terms like 'natural' is “one of the most copious sources of false taste, false philosophy, false morality and even bad law” (J.S. Mill)
David Ehrenfeld, "Extinction reversal? Don't count on it"
Michael Klare, "The Race for What's Left": Fighting Over the World's Last Resources
Wed, Oct 29,
7pm, SSMB Room 129
(Free Quiz Opportunity)
VALUING NATURE
Jamieson, pp. 68-75 ( on “Intrinsic value”)
Jamieson, pp. 153-162 (on “Valuing reconsidered,” “The plurality of values,” and “Aesthetic values”)
What's a Good Major?
What College Graduates Regret (Humor)
Liberal Arts Grads Win Long-Term
Why Major in Philosophy?
Is Philosophy the Most Practical Major?
GRE scores by Major
Discussion of above
**Paper Proposal Due, Friday, Oct 24 by email (hettingern@cofc.edu)
Oct 23:
ECOCENTRISM
Aldo Leopold, “Preface to Sand County Almanac”
Aldo Leopold “The Land Ethic”
Jamieson, pp. 149-153 (on “Ecocentrism”)
Rights for Nature and Species?
Sued by the Forest: Should Nature Be Able to Take You To Court?
Equador Constitution Rights for Nature 2008
Cafaro, Species Rights to Exist
Oral Presentations (3) on Ecocentric Holism vs. Individualism
Roger Caras, “There are Two Ways of Looking at it”
“Kill the Cat That Kills the Bird?” (Full article to the right)
“Breeding Endangered Species” and “Species and Individuals”
“Delisting of Wolves Raises Hackles”
“States Seek Ok to Kill Sea Lions”
Jamieson, pp. 172-175 (on “Feral goats versus endemic plants”)
BIOCENTRISM
Paul Taylor, “Priority Principles”
Jamieson, pp. 145-149 (on “Biocentrism”)
Paul Taylor, “The Ethics of Respect for Nature” (long article)
Exam: Thurs, Oct 9
Mark Sagoff, “Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick Divorce”
Michael Pollan, “An Animal’s Place”
Jamieson, pp. 131-144 (on “The conscientious omnivore, vegetarians and vegans, and animals and other values”)
“Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and
Minds About Animals and Food”
Thurs, Oct 2, 7 p.m., 227 Addlestone Library
(Free Quiz Opportunity)
Shimmering Presences: Frog, Toad, and Toxic
Interdependencies
Thursday, 10/2/14 at 6:30pm, EHHP Alumni Center (86 Wentworth)
(Free Quiz Opportunity)
Summary of above talk
Sept 30
Class meets back in Ed. Ctr. 111
Sept 25
Last day meeting Lightsey Conference Center B08
Tom Regan, “The Case for Animal Rights”
Jamieson, pp. 116-120 (on “Regan’s rights theory”)
Jamieson pp. 120-131 (on “Using animals” and “Killing versus causing pain”)
James McWilliams, author of "The Modern Savage: Our Unthinking Decision to Eat Animals," will be speaking at 7 PM, Thursday September 25 in Addlestone 227.
(Free quiz opportunity)
Cowspiracy showings
Saturday, September 27 at 4:30 PM, both showings in Addlestone 227. Description
(Free quiz opportunity)
Virginia Beach, "The Second Northern Invasion and A New Conservation Ethos"
Tuesday, Sept 23, 6pm, Avery Research Center (125 Bull)
(Free quiz opportunity)
An Alternative to Animal Testing
(Humor: Peter Singer with Steven Colbert)
Oral Presentations (2) on Human Uses of Animals
Nicholas Kristoff, “Can We See Our Hypocrisy to Animals?”
Give Thanks for Meat (Pro eating meat essay contest winner; if interested see also other finalists essays)
Should Green Mountain College eat an ox that worked on its farm? See also
Sierra, "Can You Eat Meat and Consider Yourself an Environmentalist?" (for oral presenter, I recommend reading ahead – Jamieson 121-125)
Animal Experimentation: LD-50: “In U.S., Few Alternatives to Testing on Animals”
Pets: “Animal Rights Uncompromised: ‘Pets’
Zoos: Marc Bekoff, “Thick skins, tender hearts and broken spirits” and Susan Freinkel, “Why I Still Believe in the Zoo”
Charleston Climate March on Sunday, Sept 21
Greenbag lunch: Redefining American Urbanism
12pm Wed Sept 17, Noon, Tate, Room 202
(Free quiz opportunity)
Americans Do Not Walk And That's A Growing Problem
Fed Up (movie trailer)
Tues, Sept 16:
NEW CLASS LOCATION!
Lightsey Conference Center B08 (for 2 weeks only)
If you are coming from St. Philip Street take a left at the CofC Bookstore and a right through the SECOND set of double doors. There will be another set of double doors immediately to your left. Take them down to the basement and then go through the doors at your left, not the doors in front of you. Once you enter those doors, LCTR B08 is directly in front of you at the end of the hall.
Jamieson, pp. 102-112 (on “Speciesism”)
Oceana On Sceismic Blasting Off SC coast (Tues, Sept 16)
(Free quiz opportunity)
Post and Courier editorial on dangers of SC offshore oil drilling
Moral Behavior of Animals?
Animal Social Behavior: Orangutan and Hound Dog
Goose/Human friendship
Do monkeys have a sense of fairness?
Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals
Marc Bekoff, Animals can tell right from wrong
Property and Environment
“Tragedy of the commons” and “Whales for Sale"
“‘Takings’ and Property Rights” and “Property Rights and ‘Takings’ Legislation”
“The Lucas Case: Supreme Court Decisions”
Environmental Justice
Peter Wenz, “Just Garbage”
Anti-Environmentalism, Anthropocentrism, and an Economic Approach to Environment
Ron Arnold, "Wise Use”
William Baxter, “The Case for Optimal Pollution"
Peter Kareiva, Environmentalist critique of environmentalism (7 minute in class video)
Opposition to Environmentalism
Kansas bill would ban sustainable development spending
Green Projects are a U.N. Plot?
Are Humans Natural?
Paul Veach Moriarty, “Nature Naturalized: A Darwinian Defense of the Nature/Culture Distinction"
Religion and Environment
Lynn White, “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis”
Jamieson, pp. 1-25
George Monbiot, How Wolves Change Rivers (4 ½ min in class video)
Some Env Problems
Graphs of Environmental Degradation and Human Expansion
China starts televising the sunrise on giant TV screens because Beijing is so clouded in smog
Documentation of Environmental Problems
Animals
Animal Social Behavior: Orangutan and Hound Dog
Animals can tell right from wrong
Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals
Do Monkeys have a sense of fairness?
Debate about animal rights (Gary Francione's web page)
Mark Bekoff, Going to Slaughter: Should Animals Hope to Meet Temple Grandin?
Selections from Pew Commission report on “Industrial Farm Animal Welfare” (full report available at https://www.ncifap.org/)
Farmers Lean to Truce on Animals’ Close Quarters”
Zoos: “Who Killed Knut?”
Roger Gottlieb, "Can we Talk (about Animal Rights)?"
Bill McKibben, "The Only Way to Have a Cow"
Predation
Douglas Chadwick, “The American Hunting Myth”
The Value of Natural Things (from O'Neill, Holland, & Light, Env. Values 134-38)
Environmental Humor
Dana Lyons' "Cows with Guns" (audio, humor)
Humor: The Majestic Plastic Bag
Political Humor aimed at Global Warming Deniers (video)
(Humor: Peter Singer with Steven Colbert)
Colbert humor: Meatless Mondays and Plant Communication Research
Lesson Plan for Role of Protest in Democracy (To go with If a Tree Falls video)
As eco-terrorism wanes, governments still target activist groups seen as threat
Environmental Leaders Call for Civil Disobedience to Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline
Consumption
Population
Population growth explained (video)
Dave Foreman, The Human Population Explosion
A Learning Secret: Don’t Take Notes with a Laptop