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IBH 2BD3

MORAL ISSUES

Undergraduate

Winter 2026 · C01

An introduction to moral philosophy through a consideration of issues in professional ethics (e.g., health care and energy). Topics such as abortion, human experimentation, …

Readings

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Winter 2026

Topics

  • Dehumanization
  • Mass violence
  • Workplace exploitation
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Cultural relativism
  • Indigenous and Western ethics
  • Animal ethics
  • Synthetic biology
  • Artificial intelligence and education

Readings

  • Required: Nick Haslam (2006), Dehumanization: An Integrative Review, Personality and Social Psychology Review 10(3), 252–264.
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  • Required: V. Esses, S. Medianu and A. Sutter (2021), The Dehumanization and Rehumanization of Refugees, in The Routledge Handbook of Dehumanization, 275–287.
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  • Required excerpt: David Livingstone Smith (2011), Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others, 142–154.
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  • Required: David Livingstone Smith (2016), Paradoxes of Dehumanization, Social Theory and Practice 42(2), 418–433.
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  • Required: Johannes Steizinger (2018), The Significance of Dehumanization: Nazi Ideology and Its Psychological Consequences, Politics, Religion & Ideology 19(2), 139–157.
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  • Required excerpt: Norman E. Bowie (2017), Business Ethics: A Kantian Approach, 41–53.
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  • Required: D. G. Arnold and N. E. Bowie (2003), Sweatshops and Respect for Persons, Business Ethics Quarterly 13(2), 221–242.
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  • Required excerpt: Stephen A. Marglin (2010), The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community, 1–36.
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