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May 01, 2024
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Goucher College 2011-2012 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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PHL 228 - Philosophy and the Animal (3 Cr.)
Philosophy’s engagement with animal beings has traditionally been limited to questions of ethics. This class goes beyond animal ethics to consider the ontological and epistemological assumptions underlying the ethical debates. How are animals constructed in cultural production? How do these constructs affect social ontologies? What does it mean to “be” an animal, or to say that humans are animals? How has philosophy contributed to a certain understanding of animal being, and how might it contribute differently? How can we engage in politics, much less in something called “democracy,” in a social field which consists of multiple species? Prerequisite: 100 level course in Philosophy. Spring semester. Offered Spring 2012. Grebowicz.
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