Università Roma Tre

By completing this course, students will be able to:
● Demonstrate important concepts and vocabulary related to ethics
● Exhibit ethical literacy and its application to environmental issues
● Use critical thinking to critique how environmental problems relate to ethical
consideration
● Differentiate between normative and meta-ethics and how they relate to how
humans react with the environment
● Relate how biocentrism, eco-centrism and anthropocentrism impact
environmental justice and conservation
● Comprehend the intersection of environmental ethics and culture

This course is taught in English.

Required readings:

McShane, K . (2007). Anthropocentrism vs. Nonanthropocentrism: Why Should We
Care?
Norton, G. B. (1984). Environmental Ethics and Weak Anthropocentrism.
Radford, T. (2010). How James Lovelock introduced Gaia to an unsuspecting world.
Korsgaard, C. M. (2013). Getting Animals in View.
Orland, M. A. (2004) A brief history of the relationship between humans and wildlife.