APP-91806 Nature Versus Environment: Reasons to (not) Care
Course
Credits 6.00
| Teaching method | Contact hours |
| Lectures | 6 |
| Literature study | 75 |
| Tutorial | 6 |
| Self-study | 25 |
| Course coordinator(s) | drs. LFP Pijnenburg |
| HHB Prijn | |
| Lecturer(s) | prof. dr. MLJ Wissenburg |
| Examiner(s) | prof. dr. MLJ Wissenburg |
Language of instruction:
English
Contents:
Topic of this course is the identification and assessment of the necessarily normative foundations of all 'reasons to care' for nature/ environment as expressed in politics, scientific practice and everyday life. Specific attention will be paid to the difference between nature and environment (leading to different conceptions of sustainability). In addition, by discussing and analysing the philosophical strategies to defend 'reasons for care', the course will highlight the 'humanist' element in these strategies, i.e. their challenge to one's individual intellectual and moral responsibility.
Aims:
- comprehensive understanding of 'reasons to care' for nature in a humanist context;
- critical reflection on 'environmentalist' assumptions in the student's discipline.
Activities:
Two introductory and one concluding lecture, three working sessions for discussion of the literature and (voluntary) presentations by students.
Examination:
Paper.
Literature:
Various articles and chapters (will be made available)