Welcome!

This is the course blog for Environmental and Animal Ethics.

My hope is that each of you will participate thoughtfully and graciously in the conversations on this blog. The topics addressed in this course are crucial to understanding how we ought to live in this world, how we ought to treat our fellow creatures and the broader environment. What we talk about here will push up against our current behaviors and practices. It may prove to be deeply challenging and confrontational. Consequently, we may be unwilling to consider carefully and charitably views that are different from our own or to take seriously objections to our beliefs.

This is unfortunate and tragic.

I should hope that on this blog we practice listening carefully to each other, expressing clearly and carefully our positions, and handling graciously criticisms raised against our beliefs. Doing so should help us all think harder and better about how we treat animals and the environment in general in addition to thinking harder and better about who we are and how we are to engage the world.

I look forward to joining in conversation with each of you!