Ethics, Aesthetics, & Animals

Ethics, Aesthetics, and Animals
Ned Hettinger, Fall 2011

	Philosopher's Index British Journal of Aesthetics Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Journal of Aesthetics Education Hettinger Aesthetics and Ethics Bibliography	Syllabus Schedule of Assignments Critical Questions First paper assignment Possible first paper topics Suggestions for writing your philosophy paper Spring 2012 Philosophy Courses Possible topics in animal ethics Schedule of Animal Ethics Paper Help with article search
Date	Class Notes	Readings for Class	Miscellaneous
Unit on Ethics & Animals			Michael Pollan, "An Animal's Place" Pollan on how domestication benefited animals
Thursday, Dec 8, 12pm: Final Exam	A few final exam study questions
Monday, Dec 5,: Animal paper due (hard copy)	Requirements of Animal Paper
Thursday, Dec 1 Emily, CQ	Palmer, Ch 8	Palmer, Ch 8: Puzzling Through Some Cases and Conclusion, pp 141-166
Tuesday, Nov 29:	Palmer, Ch 7	Palmer, Ch 7: Some Problems and Questions, pp. 115-140
Before Thanksgiving	4-6 page draft of paper
Tuesday, Nov 22 CQ, Matt	Palmer, Ch 6	Palmer, Ch 6: Past Harms and Special Obligations, pp. 96-114
Thursday, Nov 17th CQ, Cody	Palmer, Ch 4 Palmer, Ch 5	Palmer, Ch 4: Wildness, Domestication, and the Laissez-faire Intuition and Ch 5: Developing a New, Relational Approach, pp. 64-95
Tuesday, Nov 15 CQ, Teresa	Palmer, Ch 3	Palmer, Ch 3: Capacities, Contexts and Relations, pp. 44-63
Sat/Sun, Nov 12/13	Summary of two outside articles and how use due
Thursday, Nov 10 CQ, Tom	Palmer, Ch 2	Palmer, Ch 2: Capacity-Oriented Accounts of Animal Ethics, pp. 25-43
Tuesday, Nov 8 CQ, Shelby	Palmer, Introduction and Ch 1	Clare Palmer, Animal Ethics in Context (Columbia 2010) (hereafter “Palmer”), Introduction and Ch 1: Animals’ Capacities and Moral Status, pp. 1-24	order of critical questions after Shelby: Tom Chap 2, Teresa Ch 3, Cody Ch 4/5, Matt Ch 6, No one Ch 7, Emily Ch 8
Thursday, Nov 3 CQ, Joe	Nussbaum, Part 3	continue reading Nussbaum, pp. 388-407 of "Beyond Compassion"	Some articles on capabilities approach and animals
Tuesday, Nov 1 CQ, Natalia	Nussbaum, Part 2	continue reading Nussbaum, pp. 357-388 of "Beyond Compassion . . ."	Article on Predation in Nature Problematic: Jeffery McMahon, “The Meat Eaters"
Sat/Sunday 30/31	Paragraph on animal ethics paper topic	email, hettingern@cofc.edu
Thursday, Oct 27	In class video	The Witness	Audio: The Witness
Tuesday, Oct 25 CQ, Emily	Nussbaum, Beyond Compassion, Part 1	Martha Nussbaum, “Beyond ‘Compassion and Humanity’: Justice for Nonhuman Animals” in Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, and Species Membership. (Harvard 2006) , pp. 325-356.
Thursday, Oct 20 CQ Tyler	Korsgaard, Fellow Creatures (second part)	Christine Korsgaard , “Fellow Creatures: Kantian Ethics and Our Duties to Animals” in the Tanner Lectures on Human Values (2004), pp. 92-110
Fall Break
Oct 13, CQ Joe	Korsgaard, Fellow Creatures (first part)	Christine Korsgaard , “Fellow Creatures: Kantian Ethics and Our Duties to Animals” in the Tanner Lectures on Human Values (2004), pp. 77-92
Oct 11, CQ Allie	Jamieson, Animal Rights and Demands of Nature	Dale Jamieson, "The Rights of Animals and the Demands of Nature," Environmental Values 17 (2008), pp. 181-199.	Predation videos Bottlenose Dolphins: Mudflat Hunting (video) Cheetahs eating Wildebeest Hyena eating Zebra Jane Godall: Chimpanzees and War
Oct 4,6 CQ Lauren	Williams, The Human Prejudice	Bernard Williams, “The Human Prejudice,” Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline (Princeton, 2006), pp. 135-154
Monday, Oct 3	Paper on Ethics and Aesthetics Due	Hard Copy, 14 Glebe, inside mailbox, please
Sept 29	Singer, Taking Life	Peter Singer, “Taking Life: Animals” from On the Human (2011)	Goose/human friendship video
Unit on Ethics & Aesthetics
Sept 27	Exam on Ethics and Aesthetics material	Some ( incomplete) study questions
Sep 22	Hettinger, Animal Beauty (powerpoint) Hettinger, Animal Beauty	Ned Hettinger, “Animal Beauty, Ethics, and Environmental Preservation”	Saving Ugly Animals
Sep 20	Eaton, Aes/Ethics in Environment	Marcia Eaton, Ch 12: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Environment, pp. 175-196, from Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical (Oxford, 2001)
Sep 15	Eaton, Aesthetics the Mother of Ethics?	Marcia Eaton, Ch 7: Aesthetics: The Mother of Ethics?, pp. 81-94, from Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical (Oxford, 2001) Marcia Eaton, Part III, “Integrating Aesthetic and Moral Value,” pp. 95-97, from Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical (Oxford, 2001)	Articles in favor of separation aesthetics and ethics William Gass_"Goodness_Knows_Nothing_of_Beauty: On the Distance between Morality and Art" Richard Posner, "Against Ethical Criticism"
Sept 13	Eaton, Taking Aesthetics Seriously and the Separatist Mistake	Marcia Eaton, Part II: Taking the Aesthetic Seriously, pp. 55-56, from Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical (Oxford, 2001) Marcia Eaton, Ch 5: The Separatist Mistake, pp. 57-69, from Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical (Oxford, 2001)	Industrial Scars: The Art of Environmental Pollution
Sept 6 & Sept 8	Kieran, Art, Morality and Ethics	Matthew Kieran, “Art, Morality and Ethics: On the (Im)Moral Character of Art Works and Inter-Relations to Artistic Value”	Karen Hanson, "How Bad Can Good Art Be?"
Sept 1	Gaut, Ethical Criticism of Art	Berys Gaut, "The Ethical Criticism of Art"	Encyclopedia article on the ethical criticism of art Daniel Jacobson, “In Praise of Immoral Art,” Philosophical Topics XXV 1 Spring 1994
Aug 30	Gaut, Just Joking	Berys Gaut, “Just Joking: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Humor” through library or html file	Bibliography on Humor
Aug 25	Devereaux, Beauty and Evil	Mary Devereaux, "Beauty and Evil: The Case of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will"	Triumph of the Will (video) Holocaust time line 1934 Night of the Long Knives 1934 Edward Burtynsky Photographs