DAY 13 Personhood, Animals as Persons and Metaphysics CTQ

Today is an in-class work period to complete your first Metaphysics Critical Thinking Question (it's due Monday).  Here is the link for where to post the link to your work Philosophy Assignments Links - the only way to paste the link beside your name is the hit ctrl + v    after you've copied your Google Doc or MS Word Online url.  Please remember to SHARE your work to me, marktkovich@gmail.com     This is a trial run for this, I'm trying to get a sense of how well this works so thank you for helping me with the trial!

The issue of dolphins and other cetaceans being given the status of "persons" and thus being granted human rights that we (people) all enjoy is highlighted in the BBC article.  The issue is, of course, also raised in the textbook and we have discussed it in class often - also, have another look at the Bonobo Monkey video of a couple of days ago.

Here's a link to the original story on BBC.uk on Dolphins as "Persons".  There are some related links there to check if you are interested or need some other sources of current information.

On Monday we'll start looking at your next project dealing with Answering Life's Fundamental Questions.

As I said at the beginning of class, I'm completely impressed with all of your abilities in the Learning Skills that teachers track for you.  You are a mature class with excellent Self-Regulation skills, in Period 3 anyways  :-)   !!  So keep up the good work, I'm very proud of you all.  Here's a quick pic of you at work today - everyone on task, asking me good questions, trying your best!!  Yay for YOU!!!   (sorry, seven of you didn't fit into the picture and several others of you were away today).