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Readings to date, HAR 2011
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Due Thursday Sept 15 - Focus on Companion Animals
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Armstrong and Botzler (hereafter Armstrong), Part Nine: Animal Companions (542-583)
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Bernard E. Rollin and Michael D. H. Rollin, “Dogmaticisms and Catechisms: Ethics and Companion Animals” (546-550)
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Clare Palmer, “Killing Animals in Animal Shelters” (570-578)
- And at least browse the intro and some of the other articles in this section. . .
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Yi-Fu Tuan, “Animal Pets: Cruelty and Affection” (Kalof and Fitzgerald, hereafter Kalof)
- Class notes here: Excollege HAR, class notes on companion animals.pdf
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First pbworks upload here: First pbworks upload
Due Thursday Sept 22 - Introducing Animal Ethics [focus on Singer]
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Tom Regan, “The Case for Animal Rights” (Armstrong 19-26)
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Peter Singer, “Practical Ethics” (Armstrong 36-46)
- Supplemental works by Singer (optional)
- (skim if necessary) Carl Cohen, “Reply to Tom Regan” (Armstrong 26-29)
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(skim if necessary) R.G. Frey, “Rights, Interests, Desires and Beliefs” (Armstrong 55-58)
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Martha Nussbaum, “The Moral Status of Animals” (Kalof 30-36)
- You might also want to read a blog post of mine on the topic, which provides a general overview: http://ikesharpless.com/?p=279
- Class notes here: Excollege HAR, class notes on animal ethics.pdf
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Second pbworks upload here: Second pbworks upload
- (for reference, if you're interested: a similar upload from my students last year here
Due Sept. 29 - Focus on NGOs and Public Policy
Due Oct. 6 (different from syllabus! Jumping ahead a week...): Guest Teaching by Allen Rutberg
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J. Baird Callicott, “The Philosophical Value of Wildlife” (Armstrong 439-443)
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Dale Peterson, “To Eat the Laughing Animal” (Armstrong 485-489)
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Marti Kheel, “The Killing Game: An Ecofeminist Critique” (Armstrong 454-463)
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Alastair S. Gunn, “Environmental Ethics and Trophy Hunting” (Armstrong 464-473)
- Aldo Leopold, "The Land Ethic", available here: http://home.btconnect.com/tipiglen/landethic.html
- Third pbworks upload here: Third pbworks upload
Due Oct 13 - focus on Animal Consciousness
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Daniel Dennett, “Animal Consciousness: What Matters and Why” (Armstrong 113-119)
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Marian Stamp Dawkins, “Animal Minds and Animal Emotions” (Armstrong 120-125)
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Bernard E. Rollin, “Animal Pain” (Armstrong 135-140)
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Marc Bekoff, “Wild Justice and Fair Play” (Kalof 72-90...this is longer than the others - skim if necessary, but at least get the core idea)
- Class notes here: HAR class notes, animal consciousness.pdf
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Fourth pbworks upload here: Fourth pbworks upload
Thur. Oct. 20 – Animals as Food, 1: Livestock Agriculture and the Global Food System
Thur. Oct. 20 – Animals as Food, 2: Focus on Diet and Food Choices
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Steven L. Davis, “The Least Harm Principle May Require That Humans Consume a Diet Containing Large Herbivores, not a Vegan Diet” (Armstrong 243-247)
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James Rachels, “The Basic Argument for Vegetarianism” (Armstrong 260-267)
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Kathryn Paxton George, “A Paradox of Ethical Vegetarianism: Unfairness to Women and Children” (Armstrong 274-280)
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David Nibert, “The Promotion of “Meat” and its Consequences” (Kalof 182-189)
- (Optional, but recommended) David Foster Wallace, "Consider the Lobster": http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster
- Sixth pbworks upload: Sixth pbworks upload
- Class notes here: Animals as Food, day 2, class notes on diet and vegetarianism.pdf
- Reading response paper due (guidelines in syllabus) - feel free to send me questions or drafts anytime up to 24 hours before the paper is due.
- Be ready to discuss at least some general ideas for your final paper (I meant to do this last week, but didn't get around to it in class...)
Thur. Nov. 3 - Animals as Experimental Subjects
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David DeGrazia, “The Ethics of Animal Research” (Armstrong 308-316)
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Baruch Brody, “Defending Animal Research” (Armstrong 317-325)
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F. Barbara Orlans, “Ethical Themes of National Regulations Governing Animal Experiments: An International Perspective” (Armstrong 334-341)
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(optional) Lynda Birke, “Into the Laboratory” (Kalof 323-335)
- Another piece by Birke (Armstrong) - "Who - or what - are the rats (and mice) in the laboratory?"
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David Morton, "Some Ethical Issues in Biotechnology Involving Animals" (Armstrong)
- Final project outine (or brainstorm) due - feel free to email me with any questions as you're working on this...
- Class notes: HAR class notes, animals as experimental subjects.pdf
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Seventh upload here: Seventh pbworks upload
Thur. Nov. 10 – Animals in Education and Entertainment (Focus on Zoos)
Thur. Nov. 17 – Animals as Symbols
Thur. Dec. 1 - Animal Law
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Steven Wise, “A Great Shout: Legal Rights for Great Apes” (Armstrong 589-595)
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Richard Posner, “Book Review of Rattling the Cage” (Armstrong 596-600)
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Richard Epstein, “The Dangerous Claims of the Animal Rights Movement” (Armstrong 601-604)
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Selected passages from key legal cases (and class notes): Class notes and compiled notes on Animal Law.pdf
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Print out some of and look over the HSLF's 111th Legislative Scorecard: http://www.hslf.org/humanescorecard/
- Feel free to just print out a few pages of this (the main senate/house pages, and then the ones that have your state's senators/reps would work...)
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Final paper rough draft due (at least four pages and five sources - this doesn't need to be the first four pages, necessarily...)
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Tenth upload here: Tenth pbworks upload
- For this upload, please look through the 'key legal cases' handout above (which is mostly a condensation of my class notes from a Harvard Law School Animal Law course I took a while back), and pick a legal case to look into in a bit more depth.
Thur. Dec. 8 – Recapitulation and Legal Case Study: Navy Sonar and Cetaceans
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