OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH ANIMALS

• Fall 2000 Course: OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH ANIMALS    Here you will find a course description, syllabus, notes, commentaries, reports of disucssions, and various other materials for this philosophy course.
• Working Annotated Bibliography   A growing and tentative list of printed materials on our relationship with animals. Most items are annotated.
• Comments on Vicki Hearn's ADAM'S TASK.    Notes by Corbett made while reading this book in 1998.
• Four Positions on Animals   An essay by Corbett sketching four different philosophical positions on our relationship to animals.
• Well-fed Cats and Hungry Children    An essay by Corbett arguing the "closeness," not species, is the best criterion of moral obligation.
• Nonhuman Animals and the Moral Sense     A bold paper by Webster University graduate Shannon Ostermueller challenging the general view that only human beings are capable of moral acts. This paper was also an invited paper at the University of Colorado at Boulder 3rd Annual Rocky Mountain Student Philosophy Conference April 20-21, 2001
• Chimps being taught English.    This article claims that chimpanzees are being successfully taught English, and in turn teaching it to their young.
• Giant Panda Makes History With Triplets
• No-Kill Vs. Low-Kill Shelters   An e-mail note from Sylvia Rolloff.
• EXTERNAL LINKS TO OTHER PEOPLE'S WEB SITES.

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