(updated – 11/29/16)
| PHI 336.001 Fall 2016 Schedule MWF 2:00 am - 2:50 pm, 334 Whitehall Classroom Bldg |
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| Day | Date | Class | due on day listed Reading/Homework |
| "Handout" = Canvas:Files:Handouts "Library" = Canvas:Files:Library |
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| Unit One: Aldo Leopold's Land Ethic | |||
| 8/24 | Wed | First Day: Syllabus; Who is Leopold? | Handout: Syllabus Leopold: "Thinking Like a Mountain" (Location of Wolf Shooting, ca. Sept. 22, 1909)) |
| 8/26 | Fri | The Land Ethic | Leopold: "The Land Ethic" (with particular attention to the first half) |
| 8/29 | Mon | The Land Ethic (continued) | reread "The Land Ethic" (with particular attention to the second half) |
| 8/30 Last day to add | |||
| Unit Two: Philosophical Roots of Anthropocentricism Supplementary Assignment: read the Part I (pages vii-ix, 3-92) of Leopold's A Sand County Almanac by Friday, 9/16 |
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| 8/31 | Wed | Francis Bacon (1561—1626, British) | Library: Bacon - Arts & Sciences |
| 9/2 | Fri | Class cancelled (please do the quiz & assignment, though) |
Online Quiz - Syllabus (due by 2:00 p.m. today) Selfe Picture Assignment (due by 2:00 p.m. today) |
| 9/5 | Mon | Labor Day | |
| 9/7 | Wed | René Descartes (1596—1650, French) | Library: Descartes - Beast-Machine |
| 9/9 | Fri | John Locke (1632—1704, British) | Library: Locke - Of Property |
| 9/12 | Mon | The Western tradition | Library: White - Historical Roots |
| 9/14 | Wed | Pope Francis | Library: Pope Francis - Encyclical laudato si |
| 9/16 | Fri | John Stuart Mill (1806—1873, British) | Library: Mill - Nature |
| Unit Three: Non-anthropocentric Conceptions Supplementary Assignment: read the Part II (pages 95-162) of Leopold's A Sand County Almanac by Wednesday, 10/7 |
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| 9/19 | Mon | Animal liberation (equal consideration of interests) | Library: Singer - Animal Liberation |
| 9/21 | Wed | Animal rights (concept of intrinisc value) | Library: Regan - Animal Rights |
| 9/22 | Thur | Movie Showing: Green Fire - 5pm at W.T. Young Auditorium (approx. 2 hours) | |
| 9/23 | Fri | open discussion (psychocentrism) | |
| 9/26 | Mon | Biocentricism | Library: Taylor - Respect for Nature |
| 9/28 | Wed | Ecological animalism | Library: Plumwood - Animals and Ecology |
| 9/30 | Fri | open discussion (biocentricism) | |
| 10/3 | Mon | Duties | Library: Midgley - Duties Concerning Islands |
| Midterm Exam (& Writing Assiginment) | |||
| 10/5 | Wed | Review for Midterm: Units One through Three | Handout: * Study Guide for Midterm |
| 10/7 | Fri | Review for Midterm | |
| October 10-21 - Midterm grading window. 10/17 Midterm. | |||
| 10/10 | Mon | Midterm Exam | |
| 10/12 | Wed | Class discussion: paper writing - argument | Library: Seech - Thesis Defense Papers * Online Seech-Thesis Defense Paper Quiz (due by 2:00 p.m. today) Handout: Thesis Paper Assignment (see handout for complete details of PAPER assignment) |
| 10/14 | Fri | Leopold Paper Assignment Details | (bring Seech article and Thesis Paper handout) |
| 10/17 | Mon | Review Midterm Exam | Paper Assignment: THESIS PLAN due at 2:00pm |
| 10/19 | Wed | No class: SPEP Conference | |
| 10/21 | Fri | No class: SPEP Conference | |
| Unit Four: The Human Place in Nature Supplementary Assignment: read Part III, i.e., the whole of Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, by Friday, 11/6 |
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| 10/24 | Mon | The action of man upon nature | Library: Marsh - Man and Nature |
| 10/26 | Wed | Nature (natura naturata & natura naturans) | Library: Emerson - Nature |
| 10/28 | Fri | Sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields | Library: Thoreau - Walking |
| 10/31 | Mon | open discussion (romantic conceptions of nature) | |
| 11/2 | Wed | Philosophical roots of the Park Service | Library: Muir - Readings |
| 11/4 | Fri | Philosophical roots of the Forest Service | Library: Pinchot - Fight for Conservation |
| 11/7 | Mon | Getting back to nature | Library: Cronon - Trouble with Wilderness |
| 11/9 | Wed | open discussion (land management in the US) | |
| 11/11 | Fri | Review unit | Paper Assignment: DEFENSE STRUCTURE due at 2:00pm |
| Unit Five: The Concept of Sustainability | |||
| 11/14 | Mon | Sustainable development: the conventional definition | Library: Brundtland Report |
| 11/16 | Wed | Poltical ecology: critique of conventional definition | Library: Guha--Martinez-Alier – Poverty and the Environment |
| 11/18 | Fri | Traditional ecological knowledge | Library: LaDuke - Traditional Ecological Knowledge |
| 11/21 | Mon | no class (available for meetings all afternoon) | Paper Assignment: WORKING DRAFT due at 11:59pm |
| 11/23 | Wed | Thanksgiving Break | |
| 11/25 | Fri | Thanksgiving Break | |
| 11/28 | Mon | The idea of a local economy | Library: Berry - Local Economy |
| 11/30 | Wed | Achieving a sustainable economy - two ideas | Library: * Hawken - Declaration of Sustainability * Elkington - Making Capitalism Sustainable |
| 12/2 | Fri | Review sustainability unit | Library: Yanarella et. al. - Green vs. Sustainability |
| 12/4 | Sun | Working Drafts returned | |
| Unit Six: Restoration of Nature | |||
| 12/5 | Mon | Faking nature | Library: Elliot - Faking Nature |
| 12/7 | Wed | Human restoration of nature | Library: Katz - Big Lie Handout: Study Guide for Final - Parts A & B |
| Final Exam | |||
| 12/9 | Fri | Review for Final | |
| 12/9 | Fri | Paper Assignment: optional FINAL DRAFT due at 11:59pm | |
| 12/14 | Wed | (A) Take-home final exam essay due at 12:30pm (B) In-class final exam: 1:00pm-2:05pm (CB 334) |
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