2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Nov 23, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

PHIL 131 - Environmental Ethics


What principles should guide human interaction with the environment? This course considers a range of moral perspectives, including anthropocentrism, animal-rights theory, biocentrism, social ecology, ecocentrism, deep ecology, ecofeminism and the land ethic. It also considers a range of environmental issues, such as global warming, species preservation, population policy, pollution, nuclear power, animal experimentation and sustainable development. 

Course Designation/Attribute: VP

Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year