answered: In your papers, you will provide an argument. Arguments are

  

In your papers, you will provide an argument. Arguments are chains of reasoning from premises to conclusions. You will provide a valid argument (which has true premises which guarantee the truth of the conclusion), so show why your premises are true, and how they connect to the conclusion. You may have one large argument or multiple shorter arguments to the same conclusion. Your arguments should engage with our readings by analyzing philosophical positions and offering your own responses to them. Requirements: ~1500 – 2500 word paper with at least three citations from the assigned reading.
Topic bank: i) the management of national parks and wilderness areas, field research on animals, slaughtering animals for food, the permissibility of zoos, the permissibility of pets, the morality of hunting, anthropocentric vs. nonanthropocentric values, duties to endangered species, sacrifice zones, superfund sites, terraforming, duties to ecosystems, duties to natural processes, duties to future generations, duties specific to ‘persons’ vs. those to all sentient beings, the threshold of personhood. See the attachments for more optional topics and assigned readings.
Please note that NOT ALL topics in the attachment are doable. We have only covered some of the literature works so far. Feel free to choose whatever you feel may produce the best argument /essay.