While the environmental crisis is a physical crisis--a crisis of extinction, biodiversity, pollution, and climate change--it is also a crisis of reason, challenging our usual ways of thinking about human and non-human life and demanding significant changes in the ways we think, act and behave. This unit aims to investigate the origins of the environmental crisis and develop alternative models of thinking and acting. We will also examine key philosophical and ecological concepts (e.g., nature, culture, society, responsibility, biodiversity, sustainability), explore the possibility of an ethics beyond the human, and consider 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 2000 level in Philosophy |
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 | Caroline West, caroline.west@sydney.edu.au |
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Lecturer(s) | Campbell Rider, campbell.rider@sydney.edu.au |