Cpt 2 Vocab
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- Inherent Value
- Important byt themselves; Moral Agents; Ethical values/rights that exist as an intrinsic essen. charac. of a part. thing/class of things simply b/c of their existence
- controlled studies
- those in which comparisons are made between experimental and control populations that are identical in every factor except the one variable being studied
- ecofeminism
- a pluralistic, nonhierarchical, relationship-oriented philosophy that suggests how humans could reconceive themselves and their relationships to nature in nondominating ways
- blind experiments
- those in which those carrying out the experiment don't know until after data has been gathered and analyzed which was the experimental treatment and which was the control
- Paradigms
- Modeal for framework for interpreting obs.
- Moral Subjects
- Those who CANT be held responsible for their actions but can be wronged by others (children, animals, mentally handicapped)
- significant numbers
- the digits in a measurement that you know with certainty (because you measured it)
- Moral Agents
- Those whom we CAN hold responsible for their actions (Those who can judge; are of sound mind; capable of decision-making; capable of differentiating right from wrong)
- anthropocentrism
- a belief in humans as masters of the world with a unique set of rights and values
- reproducibility
- the quality of being reproducible
- hypothesis
- a tentative theory about the natural world
- Universalists
- Those who believe that PRINCIPLES ARE VALID REGARDLESS of the CONTEXT or SITUATION
- Environmental Ethics
- Search for moral values and ethical principles in human relations with the natural world
- Moral Extensionism
- Extending rights/values to those who might not be considered worthy of them by other philosophies
- scientific_theory
- a theory that explains scientific observations
- environmental racism
- The disproportionate siting of power plants and waste disposal facilities in the african american and latino neighborhoods- independent of other economic and historical factors- is an example of
- LULUs
- Locally Unwanted Land Uses such as toxic waste dumps, incinerators, smelters, airports, freeways, and other sources of environmental, economic or social degradation.
- double-blind design
- one in which neither the experimenter or the subjects know until after the data has been gathered and analyzed which was the experimental treatment and which was the control
- stewardship
- the position of steward
- Utilitarians
- People that want to use government to make society better
- inductive_reasoning
- reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- morals
- motivation based on ideas of right and wrong
- Toxic Colonialism
- shipping toxic wastes to poorer nations
- Instrumental value
- the worth that something has because of its use
- science
- a particular branch of scientific knowledge
- biocentrism
- the belief that all creatures have rights and values
- environmental justice
- the term used to describe communities of minority populations and low income communities who see themselves as bearing as disproportionate burden of pollution is called:
- parsimony
- extreme stinginess
- deductive reasoning
- deriving testable predictions about specific cases from general principles
- Relativists
- Those who believe moral principles are always dependent on the part. situation
- Nihilists
- Those who believe the world has no meaning/ purpose other than a dark, cruel, unceasing struggle for power and existence (MALTHUS)
- values
- beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something)