IPP 503: Environmental Ethics

AWAYMAVE - The Distance Mode of MA in Values and the Environment at Lancaster University

Assessment

There are two methods for distance students to submit work:

1. E-mail your essay, or portfolio as a ‘Word’ attachment, to Christine Dundas. She will check that it prints out OK, print out two copies, submit them and E-mail you confirmation of them being received in the Institute.
2. Send two copies by post to Christine Dundas IEPPP, Furness College, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YG.

The essay should be accompanied by a cover sheet and this is available in electronic form here, please fill in the self-evaluation section before sending it in.

Suggested questions:

1. How far can an appeal to human well-being offer a basis for an environmental ethic?
2. What are the boundaries of those to whom moral consideration is owed?
3. Is nature intrinsically valuable?
4. Does an environmental ethic commit one to a realist meta-ethics?
5. Should we preserve wilderness?
6. Can and should we restore nature?
7. Is there a relation between the domination of women and the domination of nature?

You are very welcome to formulate your own essay titles. However, you must discuss this with me first.

Advice, information and criteria for the award of marks