PHI 402 - Environmental Ethics

Credit Hours: 3

Introduces philosophical ethics through engagement with environmental issues such as population growth and resource use, sustainability, non-human and animal warfare, biodiversity loss, environmental justice, and global climate change. Students consider prominent questions and themes in environmental ethics, including a study of theoretical approaches to nature and animals and the place of human beings in the environment, as well as a number of issues that raise ethical questions in the context of environmental philosophy, such as ecojustice, pollution, consumption, economics, poverty, politics, education, place, lifestyle, restoration, and wilderness.

Prerequisite: PHI 200