Environmental Ethic WF-OB-POEETH

1. Knowledge - after the course student knows main theoretical issues discussed in environmental ethics. He/she knows, what is anthropocentrism, biocentrism, ecosystem ethics, and animal ethics. He/she is knowledgeable about main concepts and representatives of environmental ethics.
2. Skills - student is able to understand moral obligations towards nature, he/she is able to give arguments for nature protection from perspective of main normative theories (deontology, and consequentialism).
3. competencies - student applies moral competences in his/her actions, and perceives nature as a subject of his/her moral choices. He/she is informed consumer. Moreover, student is able to discriminate facts from fake information in terms of environmental issues.

activity during classes = 20 % of the final grade; essay on the topic connected with environmental ethics = 80 % of the final grade.

Literature:

Obligatory reading:
Callicott B., Frodeman R. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, Farmington Hills 2008 – selected fragments
Thoreau H. D., Walden or, life in the woods, 1854 – selected chapters
Leopold A., Sandy County Almanac, Nowy Jork 1981 – selected fragments
Carson R., Silent Spring, Cambridge, MA 1962 – selected fragments

Optional reading:

Árnason Þorvarður, Views of Nature and Environmental Concern in Iceland, Linköping 2005.
Attfield R., Environmental Ethics: An Overview for the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge 2003.
Brennan A., Yeuk-Sze L., Environmental Ethics, w: The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. E. N. Zalta, https://plato.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/encyclopedia/archinfo.cgi?entry=ethics-environmental
Cafaro P., Environmental Virtue Ethics, w: The Routledge Companion to Virtue Ethics, red. L. Besser-Jones, M. Slote, Nowy Jork 2015, s. 427-444.
Cafaro P., Environmental Virtue Ethics. Special Issue: Introduction, “Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics”, 2010, nr 1-2, s. 3-7.
Dower N., Ethics and Environmental Responsibility, Aldershot 1989.
Dzwonkowska D., Environmental Ethics in Poland, “Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics”, 2017, DOI 10.1007/s10806-017-9659-6
Dzwonkowska D., Environmental Virtue Ethics and Sustainability, „Problems of Sustainable Development”, 2018, nr 2, s. 139–146.
Dzwonkowska D., Is Environmental Virtue Ethics Anthropocentric?, “Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics”, DOI: 10.1007/s10806-018-9751-6.
Fortuna P., Wróblewski Z., Gorbaniuk O., The structure and correlates of anthropocentrism as a psychological construct, “Current Psychology, 2021, nr 5, s. 1-13.
Gregory K., Dissertation: Iceland’s Environmental Saga: Motivations for Sustainable Action and Belief; defense Date: March 18th, 2016, Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Gunkel D., The machine question: critical perspective on AI, Robots, and Ethics. Massachusetts, Cambridge MA 2012.
Hill T. Jr., Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environment, “Environmental Ethics”, 1983, nr 3, s. 211–224.
Naess A., Ecology, Community and Lifestyle, Cambridge 1989.
Naess A., The case against science, w: The selected works of Arne Naess, H. Glasser , A. Drengson (red.), t. 9, Dordrecht 2005, s. 145-163.
Naess A., The deep ecology movement: some philosophical aspects, w: The selected works of Arne Naess, H. Glasser , A. Drengson (red.), t. 10, Dordrecht 2005, s. 33-55.
Naess A., The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A Summary, “Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy and the Social Sciences”, 1973, t. 16, s. 95–100.
Norton B. G., Weak anthropocentrism and environmental ethics, “Environmental Ethics”, 1984, nr 6, 131-148.
Regan T., The case of animal rights, Berkeley 1983.
Rolston III H., Environmental Virtue Ethics: Half the Truth but Dangerous as a Whole, w:, „Environmental Virtue Ethics”, R. Sandler, P. Cafaro (red.), Oxford 2005, s. 61-78.
Rolston III H., Is There an Ecological Ethic?, “Ethics”, 1975, nr 85, 93–109.
Rolston III H., Philosophy Gone Wild: Environmental Ethics, Buffalo 1989.
Routley R., Is There a Need for a New, an Environmental Ethic?, „Proceedings, Twelfth World Congress of Philosophy”, 1973, s. 205–210.
Sandler R., Character and Environment. A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics, Nowy Jork 2007.
Sandler R., Environmental Ethics. Theory in Practice, Nowy Jork 2018.
Sandler R., Towards an Adequate Environmental Virtue Ethic, „Environmental Values”, 2004, nr 4, s. 477-495.
Sandler R., What Makes a Character Trait a Virtue?, „The Journal of Value Inquiry”, 2005, nr 3-4, s. 383-397.
Singer P., Animal Liberation, 1975.
Skolimowski H., Eco-Ethics as the Foundation of Conservation, “The Environmentalist”, 1984, t. 7, s. 45-51.
Skolimowski H/, Eco-philosophy: designing new tactics for living, Boston 1981.
Taylor P., “Biocentric Egalitarianism” or "Respect for Nature" (i.e., Living Beings), http://hettingern.people.cofc.edu/Env_Ethics_Sp_2012/Taylor1_Biocentric_Egalitarianism.htm
Taylor P., Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics, Princeton 1986.
Treanor B, Emplotting Virtue: A Narrative Approach to Environmental Virtue Ethics, Albany 2014.
van Wensveen L., Dirty Virtues: The Emergence of Ecological Virtue Ethics, Amherst 2000.
van Wensveen L., Ecosystem Sustainability as a Criterion for Genuine Virtue, „Environmental Ethics”, 2001, t. 23, s. 227-41.
White L., The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis, „Science” 1967, nr 155, s. 1203–1207.

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