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NED HETTINGER

I watched my country turn into a coast-to-coast strip mall
and I cried out in a song:
If we could do all that in thirty years,
then please tell me you all --
Why does good change take so long?
Greg Brown, The Poet Game

Teaching	Papers	Other
Spring 2016 Introduction to Philosophy	Naturalness, Wild Animal Suffering, and Palmer on Laissez-Faire Abstract, “Evaluating Positive Aesthetics” Journal of Aesthetic Education (Fall, 2017)	Powerpoint on Naturalness, Wild Animal Suffering, and Palmer on Laissez-Faire (PDF)
Fall 2015 Environmental Ethics	Review of Emily Brady's The Sublime in Modern Philosophy Age of Man Environmentalism and Respect for an Independent Nature (draft)	Defending Aesthetic Protectionism PowerPoint PDF Summary of Aes Protect paper in French
Aesthetics	Valuing Naturalness in the “Anthropocene”: Now More than Ever (2014)	Aes Protect Paper (draft)
Spring 2015 Nature, Technology, and Society	Non-Native Species (2014)	Links
Fall 2014	Review of George Monbiot's Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding (2014)	Quotes
Environmental Ethics	Prospects for Aesthetic Protectionism (PowerPoint) Above as PDF	Images
Aesthetics	Evaluating Positive Aesthetics (draft) Powerpoint summary of "Evaluating Positive Aesthetics"	Freedom Summer Links
Spring 2013	Conceptualizing and Evaluating Non-Native Species (2012)
Nature, Technology, and Society	Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature (2012)
Aesthetics	Animal Beauty, Ethics, and Environmental Preservation (2010)
Fall 2012	Objectivity in Environmental Aesthetics and Protection of the Environment (2008)
Introduction to Philosophy	Religion in Rolston's Environmental Ethics (2007)
Environmental Philosophy	Carlson's Environmental Aesthetics and Protection of the Environment (2005)
Spring 2012	Respecting Nature's Autonomy in Relationship with Humanity (2005)
Environmental Ethics	The Problem of Finding A Positive Role for Humans in the Natural World (2002)
Seminar on Natural Beauty	Exotic Species, Naturalization, and Biological Nativism (2001)
Fall 2011	Defining and Evaluating Exotic Species: Issues for Yellowstone Park Policy (2001)
Environmental Philosophy	Environmental Disobedience (2001)
Ethics, Aesthetics and Animals	Refocusing Ecocentrism: De-emphasizing Stability and Defending Wildness (1999, with Bill Throop)
Spring 2011	Who Owns Nature? (1998)
Introduction to Philosophy	Patenting Life: Biotechnology, Intellectual Property, and Environmental Ethics (1995)
Environmental Studies 695: Environmental Philosophy	Ecospirituality: First Thoughts (1995)
Fall 2010	Valuing Predation in Rolston’s Environmental Ethics: Bambi Lovers versus Tree Huggers (1994)
Nature, Technology, and Society	Justifying Intellectual Property (1989)
Aesthetics	Powerpoint Files
	Alaska, Oil, and Energy (Powerpoint file)
Spring 2010 Environmental Ethics	Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relation with Nature (Powerpoint file)
Fall 2009
Introduction to Philosophy
Aesthetics
Spring 2009
Business and Consumer Ethics
Environmental Philosophy
Fall 2008
Environmental Ethics
Philosophy of Religion
Spring 2008
Natural Beauty		Jimmy Carter on Alaskan Arctic Refuge
Business and Consumer Ethics
Fall 2007		How Harmful are Chemicals?
Environmental Ethics
Aesthetics
Spring 2006
Introduction to Philosophy
Aesthetics
Fall 2005
Nature, Technology, & Society
Environmental Philosophy
Spring 2005 Environmental Ethics
Fall 2004 Aesthetics