Exam 14: The Environment

Sinnott-Armstrong objects to the contribution principle as a basis for the wrongness of driving unnecessarily on the grounds that doing so

Broome claims that individuals who cause emissions are committing an injustice. How does he argue for this claim? Is his argument convincing in your view? Why or why not?

Explain the reasoning typified by Routley and Moore in their defenses of the value of the natural environment. How do they seek to establish that the natural environment is valuable? Do you think this reasoning succeeds? Why or why not?

Biocentrists think that being alive is the basis for intrinsic value because if something is alive,

According to Sinnott-Armstrong, it can be morally better not to drive unnecessarily without

In what sense does Taylor admit that human beings are better than other species? Why doesn't he think that this is sufficient to establish that humans have greater inherent worth than other species? Do you find his argument convincing? Why or why not?

One might criticize the No Difference Argument on the grounds that the actions of individuals

One might criticize the argument that there is something important in itself about being natural on the grounds that