Book: Doing Ethics Moral Reasoning, Theory, and Contemporary Issues https://1lib.us/book/5899945/9e792b
Chapter 12 Questions
1. What does it mean for a creature to have moral status? (p. 372)
2. What are the two meanings of “animal rights”? (p. 373)
3. What is Aquinas’s view on the treatment of animals? (p. 371)
4. What does Descartes believe about animals’ ability to experience pain? (p. 371)
5. What does “sentient” mean in relation to animals and humans? (p. 372)
6. What is Regan’s view on animal rights? (pp. 376–377)
7. What is “direct moral consideration”? What is “indirect moral consideration”? (p. 372)
8. Do animals have the kind of strong family relationships exhibited by humans? (p. 373)
9. What is speciesism? (p. 376)
10. What is Peter Singer’s view on animal rights? (pp. 375–376)

Chapter 13 Questions
1. What does it mean for a creature to have moral status? (p. 372)
2. What are the two meanings of “animal rights”? (p. 373)
3. What is Aquinas’s view on the treatment of animals? (p. 371)
4. What does Descartes believe about animals’ ability to experience pain? (p. 371)
5. What does “sentient” mean in relation to animals and humans? (p. 372)
6. What is Regan’s view on animal rights? (pp. 376–377)
7. What is “direct moral consideration”? What is “indirect moral consideration”? (p. 372)
8. Do animals have the kind of strong family relationships exhibited by humans? (p. 373)
9. What is speciesism? (p. 376)
10. What is Peter Singer’s view on animal rights? (pp. 375–376)

For this assignment, you will be learning about how NASA climate scientists arrive at their conclusions concerning sea level rise and you will have a chance to consider some consequences of sea level rise. You will also see how “climate change deniers” generate their claims and learn about the tactics they use in their attempts to popularize these claims.

Our Rising Oceans
Read more about climate change here:
NASA: Climate Change
Question 2, below, will address their tactics. The following two videos will help you to further understand the “problem of induction” and how it factors into these tactics:
Skepticism: David Hume
The Problem of Induction
For this assignment, answer the following questions fully:
1. In “Our Rising Oceans”, you witnessed a conference of “climate change deniers” at which scientific claims about climate change are called into question. What are three things that stood out to you about this conference? Explain.
2. Is the problem of induction sufficient to dismiss scientific claims about climate change? Why or why not?
3. In the documentary, you saw some consequences of climate change that are already occurring in Bangladesh. What are three things that stood out to you from that section of the video? Explain what you found significant about these things.