Completed university course
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.
Taught in the 2025/2026 academic year, the course combined participatory lectures, close reading and case discussion. Its aim was to make the moral assumptions of different positions explicit and develop independent arguments.
The programme addressed anthropocentrism, biocentrism and ecocentrism; individuals and ecological wholes; pluralism and relational perspectives. The core text was Matteo Andreozzi’s Le sfide dell’etica ambientale. Filosofia analitica e cervi accompanies the lecturer’s approach.
The field, its methods and the philosophical stakes of ecological crisis.
The vocabulary used to describe living systems and the value judgements it can carry.
The relations between scientific evidence, moral reasoning and decision-making.
Objects and theories of moral consideration: humans, animals, organisms and systems.
Continuity, dualisms and historical changes in relations with the environment.
How to reason when values and perspectives conflict.
The land ethic and changing ways of perceiving the ecological community.
The systematisation of the land ethic and the tension between communities and individuals.
Value in nature, species and processes; deep ecology and the ecological self.
Conservation and animal ethics in dialogue with relational and critical approaches.
Responsibility, precaution and justice in ecological transition.
Biodiversity, wildlife management and deliberation among different interests and values.