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Animal Rights

DAY	TOPIC	READING	FILM	H/W
Mon 7/2	Intro to course
Tue 7/3	Do animals have rights?	– What is Ethics? [Ethics Connection] – Applied Ethics † [IEP] – Rights † [IEP] – Rights [Ethics Connection] – AR 8-31	In Defense of Animals
Wed 7/4	No Class
Thu 7/5	Is speciesism justified? Singer's utilitarian argument	– Animal Liberation (AL) 1-23 – As you read Singer, consult the Utilitarianism.com glossary for key definitions – Utilitarianism † – Singer & Cormier note – Why Animals Have No Rights by Carl Cohen [new source; pdf file w/complete article] – Responses to Cohen [pdf file] † – Speciesism and the Idea of Equality †
Fri 7/6	More on the moral status of animals: Regan's rights-based argument	– Duties and Deontological Ethics [IEP] – Duties to Animals [one page excerpt] – The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan [pdf file] – Animal Liberation: A Critque by Michael Fox [pdf file] focus on Fox's critique of Regan – Fox's Critique of Animal Liberation by Tom Regan [pdf file] † – Fox's Reply [pdf file] †		HW 1
Mon 7/9	Critical Reasoning 101	– Weston 1-31, 40-52, 71-78 – Mission: Critical †
Tue 7/10	Critical Reasoning 101 (continued)	– Weston 1-31, 40-52, 71-78 – Mission: Critical †
Wed 7/11	Ethics Overview	– Read all the sections in Decision Making [Ethics Connection]
Thu 7/12	Should we eat animals? Down on the Factory Farm	– AR 33-41 – Animals as Food – Milk Sucks! – AL 95-157 (skim) – Factory Farming †		Quiz 1 ans.
Fri 7/13	Should we eat animals? The moral arguments.	– AL 158-183 – Why I Am Not a Vegetarian †
Mon 7/16	Should we experiment on animals?	– AR 43-58 – AL 25-94 (skim)	– PETA TV – Fdn for Biomed Research	HW 2
Tue 7/17	Animal experimentation, contd. Xenotransplantation	– Dissecting Peter Singer – NRC Guidelines for the use of animals † – Ethical issues in Xenotransplantation † – What's Wrong with Xeno? – Xeno recs(read all the sections: look for the arguments behind the policy recs)