PHIL 250C TIP: Environmental Ethics
What is our ethical relationship to the environment? Should we care for the environment only because we need it to survive or does the natural world have value in itself? How should we approach the topics of sustainability, resources and climate change? Should we be conservationists or preservationists? In this course, students will learn how to use philosophical theories to approach these questions. In doing so, we will examine the history of the environmental ethics as a recent and growing field.