Matt Tedesco

Environmental Ethics part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM SAIL:2012 Seminar:Curricular Projects
This course focuses on two sets of issues in environmental ethics. The first set of issues, emerging significantly from practices such as animal agriculture and animal captivity in zoos, research facilities, and other settings, concerns the moral status of non-human animals. What kind of moral consideration are non-human animals owed? Do they have rights, and if so, how extensive are those rights? As a philosophy class, our emphasis is on the analysis of concepts and the critical evaluation of arguments. Beyond gaining a familiarity with the issue of the moral status of animals (along with the second issue of the class, not discussed here, concerning global climate change), students should expect to develop their analytic and evaluative skills through in-class discussion and a range of writing assignments.

Matt Tedesco part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM SAIL:2012 Seminar:Participant Pages
Personal profile page of Matt Tedesco, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Beloit College, detailing his academic background, specialization in normative ethics, teaching focus on environmental and biomedical ethics—particularly animal ethics—and his participation in the 2012 ACM SAIL seminar to inform curriculum development and research on disability and end-of-life issues.

Team Profile: Beloit College part of ACM Pedagogic Resources:ACM SAIL:2012 Seminar:Participant Pages
A participant profile page for the Beloit College team in the 2012 ACM SAIL seminar, detailing interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty from Psychology, Biology, and Philosophy, their curriculum development plans involving animal cognition, ethics, and neurobiology, and their intent to expand workshop insights across campus.