The Environmental Educator's Page

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To the best of our knowledge, the first course in Environmental Ethics to be offered by a philosopher at any campus of the University of California was introduced by the Gadfly in the Spring of 1980. That course has since evolved as he has presented it numerous times at campuses in California, Colorado, and most recently (Winter, 1997) at Northland College in Wisconsin.

Herein we include, for the use of Environmental Ethics teachers elsewhere, the basic course materials for that class: the syllabus, the introductory essay, and a collection of topical essays. Our only conditions for their use are the usual: (a) acknowledgment of their source, and (b) notification to the author. (Our e-mail address: gadfly@igc.org).

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Environmental Ethics -- A Course Syllabus

Environmental Ethics -- An Introduction.

Topics in Environmental Ethics.
 

	A Note from the Editor	Moral Psychology and the Environment
	Ecology for Ethicists	Responsibility for the Environment
	A New Ethic?	The Significance of Wilderness
	Anthropocentrism	Environmental Axiology
	Animal Liberation	Economics and the Environment
	Gaia-Centrism	Policy-Making by the Numbers
	Biophilia	The Duty to Posterity
	Holism and Contextualism	An Ecomoralist's Summary and Credo

Afterword: The Lessons of Nature.

Can the Environmentalist Escape Philosophy?

The Hulings Lectures: 

Environmental Ethics as a Liberal Art
What Good is a Planet?  An Exploration of Environmental Axiology.

 
The Quotation Bin

 

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Dr. Ernest Partridge is a consultant, writer and lecturer in the field of Environmental Ethics and Public Policy. He has taught Philosophy at the University of California, and in Utah, Colorado and Wisconsin. He publishes the website, "The Online Gadfly" (www.igc.org/gadfly) and co-edits the progressive website, "The Crisis Papers" (www.crisispapers.org).  Dr. Partridge can be contacted at: gadfly@igc.org .