Featured Course

Global Justice and the Environment with Madison Powers (Spring 2011)

One of our greatest ethical and philosophical challenges today is to provide an adequate account of socioeconomic justice — fairness in the way the major economic, political, and social institutions and practices are structured — on a global scale. Another is to address our cumulative negative impacts on the environment by our unsustainable use of natural resources, unprecedented urbanization, desertification, land use decisions, carbon emissions and other human causes of climate change. In this course, KIE Senior Scholar Madison Powers expertly led students in understanding the nuances and philosophical issues involved in these critically important challenges and provided an excellent forum for lively debate and discussion. The course naturally attracted conscientious undergraduate students from various backgrounds including economics, government, and philosophy who were able to interact with Dr. Powers and each other by thinking critically and carefully about these challenges, the alternative responses to them presented by contemporary philosophers and ethicists, as well as their own responses and ideas.

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