PSCI 3064 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Naturalistic Fallacy, Moai, Ecological Collapse

• School: CU-Boulder
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 3064
• Professor: Steve Vanderheiden

Document Summary

How do we allocate significance: naturalistic fallacy: cannot validly divide (cid:498)ought(cid:499) from (cid:498)is(cid:499) (cid:523)value. Example: change language from (cid:498)swamp(cid:499) (cid:523)negative connotation) (cid:498)wetlands(cid:499) (cid:523)invokes thoughts of ecology, Discourse: (cid:498)a shared way of apprehending the world. Theory provides (and links) 3 elements natural habitats: values = politically contested important phenomena, evaluation: provides analysis (value theory) on behalf of criteria for assessing means/ends, prescription: specifies what should be done. Theorizing provides a narrative for identifying origins of social problems, notes obstacles to overcoming them, and helps to understand them. Poor representation of interest and need for a speaker for minority/affected. Once-ler"s greed and abuse of resources groups lorax must stand up for swans, bar-ba-loots, etc. because once-ler doesn"t consult inhabitants about turning forest factory. Value shift at the end before, once-ler valued thneeds, now values. Prescription: suggested change in values (and habit rehabilitation) rebuilding forest. Isolated island (no commercial/martial interaction, self-contained), settled in.