Dec 07, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Bulletin

PHL 2010 - Animal Philosophy and Ethics (3)


When Offered: Fall; Spring
GEN ED: Integrative Learning Experience (Theme: “Human-Animal Bond”)
This class provides an introduction to animal philosophy and ethics. In particular, students study historical as well as recent animal philosophy tracing questions that may include the critique of “the question of the animal,” the human/animal binary, animal rights, anthropocentrism, philosophical anthropology, and the relationship between humans and animals including the philosophical discourse around the “animality” of humanity itself.