Over the past three decades a new area of philosophical study has emerged — environmental philosophy. Philosophers have turned to the environment in practical response to the multitude of ecological problems modern industrial society has spawned, from the everyday air and water pollution with which many people live to wilderness destruction, ozone depletion, toxic waste dumpsites and lake beds, species extinction, and so on. This course will examine several such pressing environmental issues, using both philosophical and non-philosophical source material. After studying basic background material in analytic philosophy, we will survey the major approaches philosophers and other theoreticians have adopted toward confronting and resolving various environmental problems. This will take us through several readings into what could be called the “greening” of ethics, where we will inquire into the concept of “moral community,” i.e., the realm of objects (human “persons”, members of other species, places, things) entitled to moral consideration. We will also examine several so-called ‘radical’ ecological movements whose proponents maintain that the only way to resolve the current spate of environmental problems is by fundamentally transforming modern society and revising how we look at the human-nature relationship. Finally, the course will also explore the impact of two key economic philosophers (A.F. Hayek and John Maynard Keynes) upon our modern attitudes toward sustaining the environment.