For Friday:
1. Animal rights, indigenous hunting, and imperialism:
https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/animal-rights-imperialism-and-indigenous-hunting
2. Animal rights and the Inuit:\
For Monday:
1. (I have sent all students an email with the Nussbaum article addressing the "predation problem" attached.)
2. Silliman & Braden-Johnson, Multicriterial Value Incrementalism:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Ok_EXn3Gk7B3AqmPbFxf7KtV1dpoVv_xUtF9KCSbWU/edit?usp=sharing
1. Identify some topic from Gruen, chapters 5-7 on which to compose either
(a) a third 2-3 pp. CRITO-based argumentative essay (following all of the supplied guidelines, just as before) or
(b) a nonstandard essay or presentation in some other mode (video, short story, dialogue, extended poem, etc.).
If you choose option (b), please also supply a brief CRITO outline of your position (choosing (a) or (b), that is, requires adopting some potentially debatable position on chapter 3 or 4 material that requires some kind of defense).
Due: Friday, December 9, in class.
1. Read: Chapter 7, Gruen.
2. Identify topics in animal ethics (those covered or neglected) that, in your view, deserve further consideration.
Supplemental: My view (or at least it was at the time of publication): Multicriterial Value Incrementalism
Read:
1. Chapter 6, Gruen.
2. Everett: "Environmental Ethics, Animal Welfarism, and the Problem of Predation."
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..."
1. Identify some topic from either chapter 3 or 4 on which to compose either
(a) a second 2-3 pp. CRITO-based argumentative essay (following all of the supplied guidelines, just as before) or
(b) a nonstandard essay or presentation in some other mode (video, short story, dialogue, extended poem, etc.).
If you choose option (b), please also supply a brief CRITO outline of your position (choosing (a) or (b), that is, requires adopting some potentially debatable position on chapter 3 or 4 material that requires some kind of defense).
Due: Monday, November 7, in class.
Read: Chapter 3-4, Gruen.
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:
5. Video (ethics professor from U. of Vermont):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HAMk_ZYO7g
6. Ed Winters, Arguments against Veganism
Here's a link to the May, 2016 T-12 debate on the "is-ought" (natural-normative; description-prescription) problem. For anyone who wants to dig a bit deeper, I also published an essay many, many years ago defending the dual thesis that the is-ought gap is a permanent fixture of rational argumentation and that there exists an equally unbridgeable "ought-is" gap. That paper is available on request.
Compose a 2-3 pp. CRITO-based, argumentative essay following closely the details of a successful essay as indicated in handout QA. (For more detail on CRITO and paper mechanics, review as necessary handouts CR1-CR3 and STEP-I.)
As always, feel free to send me (d.johnson@mcla.edu) your outlines/thoughts at any stage in the production of your essay.
Final essay due: Friday, October 7, in class.