104年第2學期-5441 全球暖化環境變遷與哲學 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
the grade of seminar is constituted by a paper	50
test	25
presentation	25

教育目標

The question of the course:The seminar is of an interdisciplinary kind, combining information from climatology, environmental studies, sustainability science, and philosophy. The center of this combination, and the theme of the seminar is one question: what does it mean to be at the limit?

基本資料

選修課，學分數：0-2
上課時間：
修課班級：生科碩博 1,2
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：上課時間：105/5/1-6/30；上課時間另訂。

參考書目

1.Lester Brown, “The acceleration of history,” SW 1996, 3-20
2.Ed Ayres, “The four spikes,” Futures 32 (2000): 539-554
3.M Wackernagel, “The ecological overshoot of the economy,” PNAS (2002): 9266-9271
4.M Schönfeld, “Climate philosophy,” ISEE Newsletter 24 (2013): 38-42
5.Tim Kasser, “Shifting values in response to climate change,” SW 2009, 122-135
6.Carl Folke, “Respecting planetary boundaries,” SW 2013, 19-27
7.Kate Raworth, “Defining a safe and just space for humanity,” SW 2013, 28-38
8.Robert Costanza et al, “Economy-in-society-in-nature,” SW 2013, 126-142
9.Kim Stanley Robinson, “Is it too late?” SW 2013, 374-380
10.David Orr, “Foreword,” SW 2014, xix-xxiv
11.M Renner/T Prugh, “Failing governance, unsustainable planet,” SW 2014, 3-19
12.Thomas Palley, “Finance and the destruction of shared prosperity,” SW 2014, 174-180
13.E Musolino/K Auth, “Climate governance and the resource curse,” SW 2014, 181-190
14.Michael Renner, “The seeds of modern threats,” SW 2015, 3-20
15.N J Hagens, “Energy, credit, and the end of growth,” SW 2015, 21-36
16.P Victor/T Jackson, “The trouble with growth,” SW 2015, 37-50
17.Ben Caldecott, “Avoiding stranded assets,” SW 2015, 51-64
18.Tom Prugh, “Childhood’s end,” SW 2015, 129-140
19.Bert J. M. de Vries: Sustainability Science (Cambridge, 2013), chapter 1 “Introduction,”
20.James Garvey, The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World”
(London: Continuum, 2008), chapter 3 “Responsibility” and chapter 4 “Doing nothing”
21.John Broome et al., “Social, economic, and ethical concepts and methods,” chapter 3 in IPCC AR 5 WG 22.III Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change (UN/Cambridge 2014)
23.Watsuji Tetsurō, Climate and Culture: A Philosophical Study (1935), trans. G. Bownas
24.(Monbushō, 1961; repr. New York: Greenwood, 1988), selections TBA
25.J R Fleming/V Jankovic, “Revisiting klima,” Osiris 26 (2011): 1-18
26.M Schönfeld, “American Disenlightenment or climate change made in USA” Env