D.C. The course is open to college faculty and others who wish to improve their skills in teaching about ethical issues surrounding the use of animals as research subjects. Emphasis will be on how to use this course material in classroom instruction. Philosophers, veterinarians, scientists, and persons from other disciplines are encouraged to attend. Course topics include the moral status of nonhuman animals, the justification for using animals as experimental subjects, ethical concerns about vulnerable subjects, student objections, the use of alternatives, animal harms and pains, the importance of species, and the role of Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees. Varying points of view will be presented in a well-balanced fashion.
Speakers are well-known experts from the United States and abroad.
Course directors are F. Barbara Orlans, Ph.D., and Tom L. Beauchamp, Ph.D., both of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. You can gopher to Phil at the address gopher.phil.vt.edu, or visit him from Arts and Sciences, under Colleges and Departments, from the Virginia Tech main gopher server. In the next couple of months a WorldWideWeb page for the Virginia Tech Department of Philosophy will be set up. At present the Virginia Tech WWW home page will take you, down a hierarchy similar to that of the gopher, to the philosophy gopher. Don t worry, we ll keep sending you mail.