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2024-2025 Catalog

PHIL 253 Animal Ethics

This course examines our moral obligations to nonhuman animals. What matters about, and to, nonhuman animals? Their lives? Their happiness and suffering? Does the welfare of all animals matter, even those that live in the wild? Can we provide a coherent rationale of our variable attitudes to animal wellbeing across the various contexts in which we interact with them, or must we dramatically alter at least some of our social practices involving animals? [H, V, W]

Prerequisite

PHIL 101 or PHIL 102 or PHIL 250

Instructor

Gildenhuys