Assignment #5: Animal Rights and Abortion

 Read: Kathie Jenni, "Dilemmas in Social Philosophy: Abortion and Animal Rights":

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23560312

Assignment #4: Animals in Captivity

1. Read Chapter 5, Gruen.

Supplemental: 

a. Francione, "Why Keeping a Pet is Fundamentally Unethical"

https://aeon.co/essays/why-keeping-a-pet-is-fundamentally-unethical

Update; here's a view (somewhat) critical of Francione's:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26813156

b. Video on pet ownership: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrwG1BHdHIk

c. Acampora, "Zoos and Eyes"

d. "Vegan Food for Animals."

 https://www.animal-ethics.org/defending-animals/veganism/vegan-food-for-animals/

e. "Should Vegans have Vegan Dogs and Cats?"

https://freefromharm.org/common-justifications-for-eating-animals/vegan-dogs-and-cats/

f. Engel, "Fishy Reasoning..."

https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol23/iss1/3/

g. Squadrito, "The Tropical Fish Hobby..."

https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol3/iss3/9/

Assignment #3: Experimenting with Animals

Read Gruen, Chapter 4.

Supplemental:

American Anti-vivisection Society:
http://aavs.org/

National Anti-vivisection Society:
https://www.navs.org/who-we-are/mission/#.WpRH4q6nHIU

Cohen:  "The Case for the use of Animals..."

http://animalstudiesrepository.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=moreaexp

Assignment #2: Gruen, chapters 3-4

Read: Gruen: Ch 3-4.

Supplemental: 

1. Alistair Norcross: "Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases"

2. G. Francione, "The Abolitionist Approach"

https://www.abolitionistapproach.com/veganism-moral-imperative/

3. Brief video from Francione:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRnndqucOX0

4. Read, also, this brief article on meat-eating and COVID:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/26/what-we-choose-eat-has-everything-do-pandemic-and-next-one

5. Video (Tyler Dogget; ethics professor from U. of Vermont):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HAMk_ZYO7g

6. Ed Winters, Arguments against Veganism

7. Cohen's defense of animal experimentation:

Microsoft Word - The Case for th… of Animals.doc

Summary and response to Cohen:

hettingern.people.charleston.edu/Environmental_Ethics/Cohen_Defense_of_Animal_Experimentation.htm

8. American Anti-vivisection Society:
http://aavs.org/

9. National Anti-vivisection Society:
https://www.navs.org/who-we-are/mission/#.WpRH4q6nHIU

MSCRE/book review deadlines

Deadlines are absolutely final – no exceptions/extra credit/partial credit. We have collectively determined the following deadlines:

MSCRE:

1. One (declarative) sentence thesis statement, due: 9/22. I have one letter grade subtracted from their final grade for the project. (Example, a “B” essay received on the final class from a student who fails to meet deadline #1 will receive a “C.”)

2. Outline and tentative bibliography, due: 10/6. Students missing this deadline will have one letter grade subtracted from their final grade for the project.

3. Initial draft of essay, due: 11/24. Students missing this deadline will have one letter grade subtracted from their final grade for the project.

4. Final version of essay: due on the final day of class: 12/12.

Book review:

Title: October 1

Assignment #1: Syllabus; Why Animals Matter; etc.

Things to do:

1. Read over the syllabus and related handouts (especially, at this early stage, handout CPE); bring questions to our next class.

2. Begin reading from our text: Gruen, Chapters 1-2.

Supplemental readings: 

1. Gruen "The Moral Status of Animals."

2. Bekoff.  (Brief Psychology Today article on animal emotions and capacities.)

3. Pala Najana. The scope of the slaughter: If Humans Were Killed at the Same Rate as Animals for Food, We'd Be Extinct in Just 2.5 Days

4. Silliman & Braden-Johnson, Multicriterial Value Incrementalism:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Ok_EXn3Gk7B3AqmPbFxf7KtV1dpoVv_xUtF9KCSbWU/edit?usp=sharing