Teaching plan

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
10.10.2006Per Ariansen? SUM, 4th floor, 14.15-16.00? Values, a matrix. Problems as fact-value compounds. The classical is-ought distinction. Types of values: instrumental, intrinsic, inherent? O'Neill (L&R:10 values), Rolston (L&R:11 values)?
11.10.2006Espen Gamlund? Sognsveien 68, 4th floor, 12.15-14.00? Colloquium 1. Is Nature Intrinsically Valuable?? O'Neill (L&R:10), Rolston (L&R:11), Norton (L&R:13), Wetlesen (W&B:47).?
12.10.2006Per Ariansen? SUM, 4th floor, 14.15-16.00? Varieties of inherent valueSources and detectors of value: the anthropocentrism issue. ? Empirical morally relevant properties in individuals: sentience, self-awareness, conatus. ? Empirical morally relevant properties in wholes (species, ecosystems)? Palmer (L&R:1 intro), Singer (L&R:4 sentientism), Regan (L&R:5 animal rights), Ariansen (handout anthropocentrism), Taylor (L&R:6 biocentrism) Katz (L&R:7 systems and individuals?) Cahen (L&R: ecosystems) Norton (L&R:13 weak anthropocentrism)?
16.10.2006Espen Gamlund? SUM, 4th floor. 12.15-14.00? Colloquium 2. Who Has Moral Status in the Environment? ? Singer (L&R:4), Regan (L&R:5), Ariansen (handout), Taylor (L&R:6), Katz (L&R:7)?
17.10.2006Per Ariansen? SUM, 4th floor, 14.15-16.00? Beyond the is-ought dichotomy. Phenomenology and the life-world. ? Value conflicts in the life-world. ? The missing type of value: constitutive value? Ariansen (handout: environmental constructionism (to be translated)). Light (L&R: 18 monism)?
18.10.2006Espen Gamlund? SUM, 4th floor. 12-15-14.00? Colloquium 3. The Nature of Environmental Ethics – Monism versus Pluralism ? Palmer (L&R:1), Ariansen (handout), Stone (L&R:15), Callicot (L&R:16), Light (L&R:18).?
19.10.2006Per Ariansen? SUM, 4th floor, 14.15-16.00? Alternative total world-views. Historical glimpses: The world of the engineer. ? The romantic reaction. Some diagnoses: what went wrong?? Deep ecology, an in-depth inquiry? Gaard & Gruen (L&R:21), Warren & Cheyney (L&R:22); Deep ecology: Fox (L&R: 19) N?ss (L&R:20)

From Witoszek and Brennan, chapters 15-22 (N?ss, French, Callicott, Fox, Brennan) + chapters 26-37 (Sale, N?ss, Zimmermann, Salleh, Warren, Hallen, Bookchin) + Chapter 51, Anker.?

23.10.2006Espen Gamlund? SUM, 4th floor. 12.15-14.00? Colloquium 4. Deep Ecology and its Critics ? Fox (L&R:19), N?ss (L&R:20), N?ss (W&B:1), N?ss & Sessions (W&B:2) – Witoszek & Brennan (chapters 15-22 and 26-37)?
24.10.2006Per Ariansen? SUM, 4th floor, 14.15-16.00? Environment as a political issue. Briefly on the tragedy of the commons. ? The idea of sustainability. ? Briefly on environmental justice. ? Briefly on future generations? Hardin The Tragedy of the Commons, Scherer (L&R:25 sustainability. Barry (L&R: 38 sustainability, future generations, Partridge, Ekeli, Environmental Values 13 (2004):421-48: Environmental risks, Uncertainty and Intergenerational Ethics?
25.10.2006Espen Gamlund? SUM, 4th floor. 12.15-14.00? Colloquium 5. Environmental Politics and Justice ? Barry (L&R:38), Partridge (future generations ), Ekeli (Environmental risks, Uncertainty and Intergenerational Ethics)

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26.10.2006Per Ariansen? SUM, 4th floor, 14.15-16.00? Time buffer and occasion to review topics? ?
30.10.2006Espen Gamlund? SUM, 4th floor. 12.15-14.00? Colloquium 6? Time buffer and occasion to review topics.

The exam will be handed out after the colloquium.?

09.11.2006? ? ? Exam to be handed in to SUM reception before 10am.?
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