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Animal Testing!

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A Life for Elisa

Perspective Problems:

• conflicting attitudes pertaining to animal testing
• issues of societal hypocrisy

What made it ethical or unethical?
Why were there double-standards around animal testing?
Are ethics dependent on the social context of knowledge?

How, and to what extent do ethical judgments limit the methods available in the production of knowledge?

AOKs, WOKs, and Definitions

• objectivity: the extent to which the knowledge being pursued will expand the area of knowldge
• AOKs and WOKs: human sciences, natural sciences, ethics

Claim:

• When the knowledge that is being obtained increases the area of knowledge, questionable methods of obtaining that knowledge can be seen as ethical

Relating back to Animal Testing...

• Cosmetics versus Medicine
• Beneficial versus Detrimental

The Tower of London

Looking back to the claim...

Stanford Prison Experiment

Back to the claim...

Summary

Discussion Questions

• To what extent is there hypocrisy in the ethics of knowledge production in varying areas of knowledge?
• How does perspective impact the ethical nature of the methods of producing knowledge?
• To what extent is emotion a reliable way to determine whether something is ethical?

Conclusion