Courses W23/24
Philosophy of nature and the landscape - Introduction: environmental aesthetic, environmental ethic, philosophy of ecology
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Number | 0000001298 |
Type | seminar |
Duration | 2 SWS |
Term | Wintersemester 2023/24 |
Language of instruction | German |
Position within curricula | See TUMonline |
Dates | See TUMonline |
- 17.10.2023 15:00-18:00 O 20, Seminarraum 50 (WZWS50) , in Ausnahmefällen ist eine Teilnahme online möglich: https://tum-conf.zoom-x.de/j/68078344030?pwd=YzBlTHltQTNON0JhY3VRTzVPNVZNZz09
- 17.11.2023 15:00-19:30 U 01, Seminarraum 49 (WZWS49)
- 18.11.2023 09:00-13:30 U 01, Seminarraum 49 (WZWS49)
- 08.12.2023 15:00-19:30 U 01, Seminarraum 49 (WZWS49)
- 09.12.2023 09:00-13:30 U 01, Seminarraum 49 (WZWS49)
- 06.02.2024 09:15-13:00 U 01, Seminarraum 49 (WZWS49)
Admission information
See TUMonline
Note: Via TUM Online
Note: Via TUM Online
Objectives
After participating in the courses of the module, students will be able to understand different approaches of environmental ethics and to apply them to current subjects of landscape planning and biological conservation. They will be able to understand basic concepts of the philosophy of science and of the meta-theory of ecology (such as the differences between normative and descriptive, and between scientifically-causal and aesthetically-moral). They will be able to critically evaluate professional publications and contribute substantially to professional discussions. They also will have the skills to apply different methods of text analysis. Their skills to write scientific texts of different forms will have improved as well as those to conduction scientific discussions.
Description
On the basis of varying timely topics, the seminar provides an introduction into the foundations of environmental aesthetics, environmental ethics, and the philosophy of science/ecology. Major topics are, e.g.: Which colloquial and scientific perceptions and ideas of nature exist? Which values are connected to these various ideas? Which methods are adequate to capture these values?
Topic in winter 2020/21:
Conflict analysis and evaluation im biological conservation: philosophical issues
Conservation conflicts are not conflicts between humans and nature, but between different humans with different interests, values, and concepts of nature. The seminar asks how such conflicts can be analysed and how different alternatives in dealing with nature may be evaluated. This does in our case not relate to more technical methods and procedures such as landscape assessment methods or other methods of "classical" conservation indices (e.g. rarity), but to philosophical, fundamental questions that arise in the analysis of conservation conflicts. These questions are in part are of an ethical nature, but also involve those about which – often implicit – images or visions of nature exist (and which effects they have), or by which approaches we can assess and understand specific conservation conflicts in their very complexity. Next to some basics about value categories and the analysis of argumentations in a conservation context the focus will be on three methodological approaches: the popular ecosystem services approach, an approach on the evaluation of conflicts from the perspective of environmental ethics, and the less well-known approach of societal relationships with nature, which attempts to capture the complexity of dealing with nature beyond a methodology focusing only on interest and values. The different approaches for the analysis of conservation conflicts (and partly towards their solution) will be illustrated by case studies.
A course of lectures on „Philosophy of Science and Environmental Ethics“ (T. Heger) will complement the seminar (also 2 SWH, see seperate announcement)
Topic in winter 2020/21:
Conflict analysis and evaluation im biological conservation: philosophical issues
Conservation conflicts are not conflicts between humans and nature, but between different humans with different interests, values, and concepts of nature. The seminar asks how such conflicts can be analysed and how different alternatives in dealing with nature may be evaluated. This does in our case not relate to more technical methods and procedures such as landscape assessment methods or other methods of "classical" conservation indices (e.g. rarity), but to philosophical, fundamental questions that arise in the analysis of conservation conflicts. These questions are in part are of an ethical nature, but also involve those about which – often implicit – images or visions of nature exist (and which effects they have), or by which approaches we can assess and understand specific conservation conflicts in their very complexity. Next to some basics about value categories and the analysis of argumentations in a conservation context the focus will be on three methodological approaches: the popular ecosystem services approach, an approach on the evaluation of conflicts from the perspective of environmental ethics, and the less well-known approach of societal relationships with nature, which attempts to capture the complexity of dealing with nature beyond a methodology focusing only on interest and values. The different approaches for the analysis of conservation conflicts (and partly towards their solution) will be illustrated by case studies.
A course of lectures on „Philosophy of Science and Environmental Ethics“ (T. Heger) will complement the seminar (also 2 SWH, see seperate announcement)
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge on ecology and landscape ecology
Teaching and learning methods
Online Seminar (via Zoom)
Dates:
Introduction and distribution of presentation themes: 10.11.2020, 8:30-10:30 h
Zoom link: https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/92644086377 You will receive the security code via mail, after registering for the seminar.
Block course (4 sessions, half days) by arrangement, dates will be decied at/after first session, Lecturer of block course: Kurt Jax
Final session (jointly with lecture series by Tina Heger): 9.2.2021 8:30-10:30
Dates:
Introduction and distribution of presentation themes: 10.11.2020, 8:30-10:30 h
Zoom link: https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/92644086377 You will receive the security code via mail, after registering for the seminar.
Block course (4 sessions, half days) by arrangement, dates will be decied at/after first session, Lecturer of block course: Kurt Jax
Final session (jointly with lecture series by Tina Heger): 9.2.2021 8:30-10:30
Examination
presentation and written documentation
Recommended literature
will be provided in moodle