Joshua Glasgow, Mark Timmons

Disputed Moral Issues

A Reader

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 784
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 191mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1293g
• ISBN-13: 9780197617700
• ISBN-10: 0197617700
• Artikelnr.: 69963663

Autorenporträt

Mark Timmons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Moral Theory: An Introduction, Second Edition (2012), and the editor of Conduct and Character: Readings in Moral Theory, Sixth Edition (2011), and the annually published Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics. Joshua Glasgow is Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University. His other books include The Solace: Finding Value in Death through Gratitude for Life (Oxford University Press, 2020) and the co-authored What Is Race? Four Philosophical Views (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* User's Guide
* 1. A Moral Theory Primer
* 1. What Is a Moral Theory?
* 2. Eight Essential Moral Theories
* A. Consequentialism
* B. Natural Law Theory
* C. Kantian Moral Theory
* D. Rights-Based Moral Theory
* E. Ethics of Prima Facie Duty
* F. Social Contract Theory
* G. Virtue Ethics
* H. Care Ethics
* 3. Coping with Many Moral Theories
* 2. Moral Theory Selections
* Mark Timmons / Why I Am Not a Moral Relativist (and Neither Are You)
* J. S. Mill / Utilitarianism
* St. Thomas Aquinas / Treatise on Law
* Immanuel Kant / The Moral Law
* John Locke / Natural Rights
* W. D. Ross / What Makes Right Actions Right?
* John Rawls / A Theory of Justice
* Aristotle / Virtue and Character
* Stephanie Collins / Care Ethics: The Four Key Claims
* Additional Resources
* 3. Sex
* John Finnis / Law, Morality, and 'Sexual Orientation'
* John Corvino / What's Wrong with Homosexuality?
* Karamvir Chadha / Sex and Consent
* Robin West / The Harms of Consensual Sex
* Joan McGregor / What Is the Harm of Rape?
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 4. Freedom of Speech
* J. S. Mill / On Liberty
* Andrew Altman / Speech Codes and Expressive Harm
* Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt / The Coddling of the American Mind
* Kate Manne / Why I Use Trigger Warnings
* Robert Mark Simpson and Amia Srinivasan / No Platforming
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 5. Drugs
* Michael Huemer / America's Unjust Drug War
* Peter de Marneffe / Decriminalize, Don't Legalize
* Robert E. Goodin / Permissible Paternalism: Saving Smokers From
Themselves
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 6. Racism
* J. L. A. Garcia / The Heart of Racism
* Tommie Shelby / Is Racism in the "Heart"?
* Myisha Cherry / State Racism, State Violence, and Vulnerable
Solidarity
* Daniel Kelly and Erica Roedder / Racial Cognition and the Ethics of
Implicit Bias
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 7. The Ethics of Immigration
* Stephen Macedo / The Moral Dilemma of U.S. Immigration Policy: Open
Borders versus Social Justice?
* Joseph H. Carens / Migration and Morality: A Liberal Egalitarian
Perspective
* Christopher Heath Wellman / Immigration and Freedom of Association
* Sarah Fine / Freedom of Association Is Not the Answer
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 8. Euthanasia
* Leon R. Kass / Why Doctor's Must Not Kill
* Dan Brock / Voluntary Active Euthanasia
* David Velleman / Against the Right to Die
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 9. Abortion
* John Noonan / An Almost Absolute Value in History Mary Ann Warren /
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
* Don Marquis / Why Abortion Is Immoral
* Judith Jarvis Thomson / A Defense of Abortion
* Margaret Olivia Little / The Moral Complexities of Abortion
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 10. Emerging Technology
* Shannon Vallor / Moral Deskilling and Upskilling in a New Machine
Age: Reflections on the Ambiguous Future of Character
* Michael J. Sandel / The Case Against Perfection
* Frances M. Kamm / Is There a Problem with Enhancement?
* Antti Kauppinen / Who Should Bear the Risk When Self-Driving Vehicles
Crash
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 11. Guns
* Hugh LaFollette / Gun Control
* Michael Huemer / Is There a Right to Own a Gun?
* Nicholas Dixon / Gun Control, Philosophers, and a Right to Self
Defense
* Timothy Hsiao / How to Think About the Gun Control Debate
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 12. The Death Penalty
* Igor Primoratz / Justifying the Death Penalty
* Stephen Nathanson / An Eye for an Eye?
* Ernest van den Haag / A Defense of the Death Penalty
* Jeffrey H. Reiman / Civilization, Safety, and Deterrence
* Michael Cholbi and Alex Madva / Black Lives Matter and the Call for
Death Penalty Abolition
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 13. War and Terrorism
* Jonathan Parry / War and Moral Consistency
* Cheyney Ryan / Pacifism
* Suzanne Uniacke / The Wrongness of Terrorism
* Daniel Statman / Drones and Robots: On the Changing Practice of
Warfare
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 14. Global Poverty
* Garrett Hardin / Lifeboat Ethics
* Peter Singer / The Life You Can Save
* John Arthur / World Hunger and Moral Obligation
* Elizabeth Ashford / Severe Poverty as an Unjust Emergency
* Onora O'Neill / Rights, Obligations, and World Hunger
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 15. The Ethical Treatment of Animals
* Peter Singer / All Animals Are Equal
* Alastair Norcross / Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and
Marginal Cases
* Donald W. Bruckner / The Vegan's Dilemma
* Lori Gruen / Experimenting with Animals
* Philip Kitcher / Experimental Animals
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* 16. Climate Change
* Stephen M. Gardiner / A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change,
Intergenerational Ethics, and the Problem of Moral Corruption
* Kyle Powys Whyte / Way Beyond the Lifeboat: An Indigenous Allegory of
Climate Justice
* Jonathan H. Adler / A Conservative's Approach to Combatting Climate
Change
* Walter Sinnott-Armstrong / It's Not My Fault: Global Warming and
Individual Moral Obligations
* Marion Hourdequin / Climate, Collective Action, and Individual
Ethical Obligations
* Cases for Analysis
* Additional Resources
* Appendix
* Glossary