Index for PHIL-3640
Environmental Philosophy
Department of Philosophy and
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Course Syllabus
Syllabus 3640 Fall 2011
Class Schedules
Unit
I Schedule (the forerunners)
Unit
II Schedule (environmental ethics)
Unit
III Schedule (the critiques)
Unit
IV Schedule (reimagination)
Final Projects
Unit
V Schedule (finals conferences and presentations)
Option I: Individual Term Paper
Option
Sample Student Papers
OR
Option II: Small Group Option
A. Short Film
Final
Project Assign: Short Film
Final
Project form: short film
Sample
Student Videos
The
Beast (final project from 2010 class with environmental theme)
The Epic Adventures of Gang
Green (stealthy ninjas making things green)
Some
Helpful Hints on Video Editing
B. Community Outreach
Final
Project Assign: Outreach
Project and Presentation Assignments
See Santas Philosophy
Guidelines (suggestions for reading, writing, oral reports, and group work)
Short Paper
Assignments
Online Readings (assigned readings not in the
texts)
Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803-82)
Nature
(1836)
H.D. Thoreau
(1817-62)
Walden (1854) see especially:
Chapter 1: Economy
Chapter 2: Where I Lived, and
What I Lived For
Chapter 11: Higher Laws
Walking (1862)
John Muir (1838-1914)
Wind-Storm in the
Forest (on
wilderness)
American
Forests (on
preserving wilderness)
Gifford Pinchot
(18-65-1946)
The
Fight for Conservation (on
conserving forests)
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948)
A Sand County Almanac (1949) (like a Bible for environmentalists)
The Land
Ethic (an environmental categorical imperative)
Thinking Like a Mountain
(loss of forests and wolves)
Rachel Carson (1907-64)
Silent
Spring (1962)
Paul Ehrlich (1932-)
Population Bomb (1968)
Lynn White, Jr.
(1907-87)
The Historical Roots of our
Ecological Crisis (1967)
Carolyn Merchant
(1936- )
Robert Bullard (1946-)
Overcoming
Racism in Environmental Decision-making (landmark article)
Confronting
Environmental Racism (Google
book)
J. Baird Callicott
(1941-)
The
Search for an Environmental Ethic
Sandy Marie Anglas Grande
Beyond
the Ecologically Noble Savage: Deconstructing White Man’s Indian
M. Elise Marubbio
Supplementary Notes and Papers
Study Notes and Questions
Environmentalism
Santas
Notes on 4th Wave Environmentalism
Ethics Notes
Questions for Videos
Avatar
(coming soon)
Mindwalk
(coming soon)
Santas Published Essays on Environmental Philosophy
Taking Care of
Things (on mechanism, ownership, and the desacralization of nature)
Dualism and
Degradation (on separation from nature as an intellectual construct of the
early moderns)
Mead’s Cosmology (on a
contemporary pragmatist cosmology that reestablished connection to nature)
Pragmatic
Intrinsic Value (on intrinsic value of nature as multi-functionality of
eco-systems)
Videos and Other Online Materials
General
11th
Hour feature film at freedocumentaries.org
Daniel Quinn Ishmael Community website
Climate
Change
Acid Test (NRDC video on
Ocean Acidification; 21.5 min)
Global
Climate Change Denial Industry (Guardian
UK story, 2006)
Global Warming (see the
Earth blow up—shock therapy for the deniers; 3.5 min)
Genetic
Modification
The
Corporation, 16: Advancing the Front (2005 documentary film, patenting
life; 5.5 min)
Bad Seed (Fritjof Capra, Paul
Hawken, et al speak against GM foods; 6.5 min)
Genetic
engineering: The world's greatest scam? (Greenpeace video; 3.5 min)
GM Foods
and You (overview of concerns about GM foods and differing standards; 5.5
min)
Onion
News Giant Crab Report (Satirical treatment of the GMO debate; 2.5 min)
Toxins and
Pollution
Oil
Interests in the Amazon (video links and companion notes to Trinkets and Beads)
Video on PVC Poison Plastic (pvcfree.org, 2006; 3.5 min)
Food
Production
The Meatrix (take-off on the Matrix that discusses factory farming;
3.5 min)
Mark
Bittman Video (What’s Wrong with What We Eat; 20 min)
Consumption
and Stuff
Affluenza Video (PBS show
on consumerism; 56 min)
Story of Stuff Video (Allegheny College
sponsored video; 20 min)
Eco Activism
and Environmental Justice
Vandana
Shiva clips (on GMF’s, organic farming, and deep democracy)
If a Tree Falls (PBS show on
the Earth Liberation Front)
Robert Bullard on Genesis of
Environmental Justice Movement (interview from Fierce Green Fire; 3 min)
Chester Environmental Justice
(community organizers against environmental racism and classism; 9 min)
Robert Bullard on
Environmental Justice (2009 UCSB lecture; 58 min)
Online Student Evaluations
Instructions for
Online Student Evaluations