Environmental Ethics
A twelve-lecture path through foundations, classic texts and applications. It moves from the vocabulary of moral consideration to conflicts concerning climate, biodiversity and public decisions.
Explore the course →Reading a question carefully, distinguishing the levels of an argument and testing reasons: this is the work I pursue through courses, lectures and public philosophy.
Teaching begins with texts and concrete cases. In environmental ethics, an apparently descriptive word can already orient a choice: nature, balance, sustainability, interest. Making these frames explicit allows disagreements to be discussed more precisely.
The paths gathered here connect basic vocabulary with major theoretical traditions and conflicts in public life. The university course records a completed teaching appointment; the microlecture and alphabet projects explore other ways into the same questions.
A twelve-lecture path through foundations, classic texts and applications. It moves from the vocabulary of moral consideration to conflicts concerning climate, biodiversity and public decisions.
Explore the course →Eighteen micro-modules address six foundational questions: the discipline’s scope, its vocabulary, facts and values, moral consideration, historical genealogies and pluralism.
Explore the course →Twenty-six entries approach problems through words: from the Anthropocene to zoocentrism, through value, predation, justice and technology.
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