Environmental Ethics

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Course ID:	WF-FI-DZWONKEnvEt-ER
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (unknown)
Course title:	Environmental Ethics
Name in Polish:	Environmental Ethics
Organizational unit:	Institute of Philosophy
Course groups:	(in Polish) ERASMUS - lectures and classes Courses at UKSW
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Subject level:	elementary
Learning outcome code/codes:	FI2_W09 FI2_W10 FI2_U03 FI2_U06 FI2_U13
Short description:	The aim of the lecture is to introduce students to ecological ethics
Full description:	The course content: 1. Introduction to environmental ethics: history of reflection, main theoretical problems, and methods - 4 hours 2. Three approaches to environmental ethics: deontological, consequentialist and aretological - 4 hours 3. The noramtivity of nature - 2 hours 4. Anthropocentrism, biocentrism, ecocentrism - 4 hours 5. The value of nature - 6 hours 6. Environmental Ethics in Poland - 2 hours 7. The value of biodiversity - 2 hours 8. Ethics and animals - 4 hours 9. Ethics in the age of Man (Anthopocene) - 2 hours
Bibliography:	1. Sandler Ronald, Character and Environment. A Virtue-Oriented Approach to Environmental Ethics, Columbia University Press, Nowy Jork 2007. 2. Sandler Ronald, Environmental Ethics. Theory in Practice, Oxford University Press, Nowy Jork 2018. 3. Tyburski Włodzimierz, Człowiek i środowisko. Dyscypliny humanistyczne i ekologia, Toruń 1995.  Tyburski Włodzimierz, Dyscypliny humanistyczne i ekologia, Wydawnictwo UMK, Toruń 2013. 4. Tyburski Włodzimierz, Główne kierunki i zasady etyki środowiskowej, w: A. Papuziński (red.) Wprowadzenie do filozoficznych problemów ekologii, Wyższa Szkoła Pedagogiczna w Bydgoszczy, Bydgoszcz 1999, s. 97-132. 5. Dzwonkowska Dominika, Environmental Ethics in Poland, „Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics”, 30(2017)1, s. 135–15, doi: 10.1007/s10806-017-9659-6 6. Dzwonkowska Dominika, Virtue and vice in environmental discourse, „Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae”, 11(2013)4, s. 61-76.
Efekty kształcenia i opis ECTS:	Knowledge - after the course stusent knows about main theoretical issues discussed in environmental ethics Skills - student is able to udnerstand moral obligations towards nature competencies - student applies environmental moral competences in his/her actions

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