Fall 2026 Political Science GR8120 section 001

Humans, Animals and Machines

Humans, Animals and Machi

Call Number 16529
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Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Type COLLOQUIA
Course Description

Political theory in the 21st century must address the role of non-humans and examine the traditional priority of human beings.  What rights, if any, should animals and AI have and on what basis?  Can we even say what it means to be distinctively human?  Can that distinctiveness support consequential moral or political conclusions?  Is there a clear basis for human or non-human equality which can ground rights or democratic institutions?  Or must we find a post-humanist politics of some kind?

Department Political Science
Enrollment 0 students (20 max) as of 5:06PM Saturday, June 13, 2026
Subject Political Science
Number GR8120
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Section key 20263POLS8120G001