Applied Ethics in Agriculture

Sociology/Economics 362

Fall 2011

Instructors: [Arne Hallam | Paul Lasley]

Class Location & Time: 119 East Hall, Wednesday 16:10-19:00

Course Information: [ Syllabus | Group Listing | Grades

Handouts
Fall 2011 Reading List	Class Presentation and Case Study Scoring
Guidelines for Class Presentations
Thank You Notes

Presentations
Ethics in Agriculture  --  Overview	Logical Arguments	Agricultural Ethics - Kelvin Liebold
Six Pillars of Character	Case Study Reasoning	Ag Ethics Pretest -- Kelvin Liebold
Making Ethical Decisions	Writing Case Studies	Ethics and Moral Values - Clark Wolf
Moral Theory	Cultural Relativism
What is Morality --- Review	The Social Contract

Case Studies
Designing Society	Case Studies I	Veterinary Teaching Animals
A Used Car	Case Studies II	A Plow for Mexican Agriculture
Case Study Reasoning	Case Studies III	Anhydrous Ammonia Sales
Writing Case Studies	Trolleyology
What Makes a Good Case

 

Readings
Morality and Moral Philosophy - Beauchamp	Agricultural Ethics - CAST
Reading Guide for Morality and Moral Philosophy by Beauchamp	Agricultural Ethics - Plant Physiology
Reading Guide for Making Ethical Decisions by Josephson	Ethics of Biofuels
Concept of a Moral Position - Dworkin	Trust in the Food Sector
The Human Predicament - Warnock	The Precautionary Principle
The Strength of Being Clean	Sustainability
Divine Command Statements	Roundup Ready Alfalfa
	Social Cost of Antibiotics
Virtues and Vices	Animals and Human Obligations:  An Argument for Vegetarianism and Limited Testing
The Doctrine of the Double Effect - Foot	Constraints and Animals - Nozick
Euthanasia	What Kind of Landscape?
Selections from Leviathan - Hobbes	Moral Confidence in Agriculture
Free Speech and Postmodernism	The Emotional Dog and its Rational Tail
Motivated Moral Reasoning	The New Synthesis in Moral Psychology
Universal Declaration of Human Rights	Dissociation Between Moral Judgments & Justifications
Social Contract Theory	Moral Cognition --- Mikhail
Bullying	Universal moral grammar --- Mikhail
	The liver and the moral organ
	A Theory of Justice - Rawls
	Distributive Justice - Nozick

Newspaper articles and such
Coke and Burger King	Illinois Admissions Scandal	Can Biotech Food Cure World Hunger?
Lockerbie: Justice and Mercy	Mineral Management Services	The Carnivore's Dilemma
BofA --- Merrill Lynch: Bonuses	Law and Manners	Downer Cows
Bonuses for Bank Employees		Enviropigs
Rural Brain Drain	Genentech and Tanox	The Bread We Waste
Kind, Generous and Eager to Boast	Dream Mine	Perishing Possessions
Torture	Are Today's Grads Unprofessional?	Unhappy Meals
Online Books	Canadian Medical Journal	The Omnivore's Delusion
Grades for Sex	Forced Womb Removal	McDonalds and Animal Welfare
You Liar!	The End of Self-Help	The "History" of DeCoster Farms
What if Marriage is Bad For Us?!	Birth Control in Afghanistan	Horse Racing
The Worst Thing About Gay Marriage	DC-Sniper	Alleged Pig Abuse
In Efforts to End Bullying, Some See Agenda	Jane Austen's Ethics	Agriprocesors --- Postville
The $31 Billion Revenue Fantasy	Global Warming --- Hacked e-mails	Animal, Vegetable, Miserable
AIG, Bailouts, and TARP	Pay to Spray	Sacrificial Animals
Money and Morals	The Smell Test	Conflict of Interest
Insider Trading	Is Morality Innate and Universal?	Factory Farms
Fort Hood Shooting	The Moral Instinct	Can the World Still Feed Itself?
Trials for Terrorists	The Moral Naturalists	Does Kenya Need GM Crops?
Hummer Love	Moral Minds	Do Animals Feel Regret?
A Bridge Too Far	Whose Life Would You Save?	Hedge To Arrive Contracts --- Lence
Rape, Kill, Sleep Around	Research Integrity	Economic Inequality
Vengeance is Mine	The Moral Life of Babies	10 Days in Sweden
Proper Giving	Rebirth of Stem Cells	Making Resolutions
Altruism and Economics	Offshore Stem Cell Research	Ethics for Economists
What Should a Billionaire Give?	Stem Cell Research Fraud	The Sugary Secret of Self-Control
Shrinking Middle Class	If It Feels Right	Sports Injuries
Kidney Donation(s)	Reversing the Decay of London Undone	Cheating
Market for Kidneys	Why Men are in Trouble	Selling Notes
Kidneys and Jesus Christians	Sexual Abuse at Penn State	SAT Cheating
Kidney For Life	Grand Jury Testimony --- Jerry Sandusky	The Shadow Scholar
Kidney Donors Get Priority		Ghostwriting Lobbyists
An Organ Donor		Ghostwriting Medical Papers
		Ethics for Graduate Advisers

Videos
Hy-Line Hatchery	Sparboe Egg Farms
Country View Family Farms	Prisoner's Dilemma
Iowa Select Farms	PCE Agitation Boat

Links
Relativism	Deontology	Race, Ethnicity, and Ethics
Divine Commands	Virtue Ethics	The Social Contract
Egoism	Rights Theories	Ethics and Justice
Utilitarianism	Feminist Ethics	The Moral Sense Test