While the environmental crisis is a physical crisis--a crisis of extinction, pollution, drastic weather patterns, and climate change--it is also a crisis of reason: a crisis that challenges our usual ways of thinking and demands significant changes in the ways we act and behave. The aims of this unit are to investigate the philosophical origins of the environmental crisis, and develop alternative models of thinking and acting. In addition, we will analyse key philosophical concepts (including nature, culture, self, society, and responsibility), explore the possibility of an ethics beyond the human, and investigate new conceptions of agency, responsibility and multi-species justice.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Philosophy |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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12 credit points at 1000 level and 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Philosophy major |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | Yes |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Dalia Nassar, dalia.nassar@sydney.edu.au |
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