Final exam

The final exam in Philosophy and the Environment is scheduled for Monday, December 17 at 9 a.m. in the university Gymnasium. The exam is worth 40% of the course grade. Students will have to answer, without notes, any two of the following three questions:

(1) Is animal liberation, whether in its utilitarian or rights form, compatible with an ethical concern for ecological wholes (such as species or ecosystems)?

(2) Is a feminist perspective required for an adequate environmental ethic?

(3) Is capitalism ecologically sustainable?

In each case the topic is to be discussed with reference to some of the arguments covered in the course; you are to support your position with cogent reasons, and consider, and reply to, one or more significant objections to your position.