PHIL 4200
Understanding environmental problems; understanding core interests; communication and the limiting of misunderstanding; procedural fairness; justifying aspirations; general approaches to environmental problems; of general applicability to environmental problems.
Provides a survey of recent approaches to political philosophy: liberalism(John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin); libertarianism (Robert Nozick); communitarianism (Michael Sandel, Alastair MacIntyre); and feminism (Alison Jaggar). Topics and readings may vary with instructor.