2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Jul 11, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

PHL 323 - Animal Rights and Its Critics


Do animals have rights? Why do we grant some animals rights but not others? In this course we will examine various arguments concerning animal rights. In the first half of the semester we will read some early animal rights/liberation arguments that are now considered classic, whereas in the second half of the semester we will turn to critics of animal rights. Topics of discussion will include, but are not limited to, authority, body, death, experimentation, factory farming, food, hunting, justice, kinship, language, personhood, pet, philosophy, power, speciesism, vegetarianism, and zoos.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: PHL 210  or PHL 215  or PHL 216  or PHL 217  or PHL 218  or PHL 219  or PHL 221 
Offered in Alternate Years, Spring Semester