Philosophy 290-4

Fall 2022

Number Title Instructor Days/time Room
290-4 Graduate Seminar: Agency, Value, and the Moral Status of Animals Wallace Tu 4-6 Moses 234

A close study of some recent work on the differences and similarities between animal and rational agency and their bearing on questions about the moral status of animals. The primary texts to be discussed will be Christine Korsgaard’s Fellow Creatures: Our Obligation to the Other Animals and Shelly Kagan’s How to Count Animals, More or Less.