This course is not currently conducted!
Erasmus code: 07.2
ECTS credits:
unknown
Language:
English
Organized by:
Institute of Ecology and Bioethics
Animal Ethics: Cases and Theories WF-OB-POLLEAnEt
The course consist of the following issues:
1. Animal ethics: the standard approach
2. Animal ethics: a naturalized and sentimentalist approach
3. The ethics of (non) eating animals
4. Ethical issues in the use of animals in scientific research
5. The ethics of animal wildlife conservation
Subject level
advanced
Learning outcome code/codes
OB2_W02
OB2_W09
OB2_W12
OB2_U01
OB2_U09
Assessment criteria
Students are required to write a philosophical essay on the topics of the course
Bibliography
D. De Grazia, Animal rights. A very short introduction, Oxford U.P., Oxford, 2002.
M. Midgley, Animals and Why They Matter, University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1983
Additional information
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