Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Cohen, Andrew I.; Wellman, Christopher Heath

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Now in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns. * Revised and updated new edition with six new pairs of essays on prominent contemporary issues including torture and same-sex marriage, and a survey of theories of ethics by Stephen Darwall * Leading philosophers tackle colleagues with opposing views in contrasting essays on core issues in applied ethics * An ideal semester-length course text certain to generate vigorous discussion

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118479872
• Artikelnr.: 40343435

Autorenporträt

Andrew I. Cohen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University, USA, and Director of its Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics. His published work focuses on rights theory and political philosophy and includes co-editorship of this volume's first edition (Blackwell, 2005). Professor Cohen is currently researching issues concerning reparations and public contrition for past injustices that in many cases continue to inflame geopolitical sensibilities. Christopher Heath Wellman is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. A specialist in the ethical aspects of political and legal philosophy, his books include the forthcoming Liberal Rights and Responsibilities: Debating the Ethics of Immigration (due for publication in 2013), and A Liberal Theory of International Justice (2009, with Andrew Altman), in addition to co-editing the first edition of this work.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman
Ethical Theory 11
1 Theories of Ethics
Stephen L. Darwall 13
Issues in Life and Death 33
Abortion 35
2 The Wrong of Abortion 37
Patrick Lee and Robert P. George
3 The Moral Permissibility of Abortion 51
Margaret Olivia Little
Euthanasia 63
4 In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide 65
Michael Tooley
5 A Case Against Euthanasia 82
Daniel Callahan
Animals 93
6 Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection 95
Tom Regan
7 Animals and Their Medical Use 109
R.G. Frey
Issues in Justice 121
Affirmative action 123
8 A Defense of Affirmative Action 125
Albert Mosley
9 Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic 141
Celia Wolf-Devine
Capital punishment 157
10 A Defense of the Death Penalty 159
Louis P. Pojman
11 Why We Should Put the Death Penalty to Rest 175
Stephen Nathanson
Reparations 189
12 Compensation and Past Injustice 191
Bernard Boxill
13 Must We Provide Material Redress for Past Wrongs? 203
Nahshon Perez
Profi ling 217
14 Bayesian Inference and Contractualist Justification on Interstate 95
Arthur Isak Applbaum 219
15 Racial Profiling and the Meaning of Racial Categories 232
Deborah Hellman
Torture 245
16 Ticking Time-Bombs and Torture 247
Fritz Allhoff
17 Torture and its Apologists 260
Bob Brecher
Issues of Privacy and The Good 273
Same-sex marriage 275
18 Same-Sex Marriage and the Definitional Objection 277
John Corvino
19 Making Sense of Marriage 290
Sherif Girgis
Pornography 305
20 The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality307
Andrew Altman
21 "The Price We Pay"? Pornography and Harm 319
Susan J. Brison
Drugs 333
22 In Favor of Drug Decriminalization 335
Douglas Husak
23 Against the Legalization of Drugs 346
Peter de Marneffe
Issues of Cosmopolitanism and Community 359
Immigration 361
24 Immigration: The Case for Limits 363
David Miller
25 The Case for Open Immigration 376
Chandran Kukathas
Humanitarian intervention 389
26 The Moral Structure of Humanitarian Intervention 391
Fernando R. Tesón
27 The Morality of Humanitarian Intervention 404
Bas van der Vossen
World hunger 417
28 Famine Relief: The Duties We Have to Others 419
Christopher Heath Wellman
29 Famine Relief and Human Virtue 431
Andrew I. Cohen
Index 447

Rezensionen

"This is a superb collection of engaging and specially commissioned paired essays advancing competing solutions to fourteen important practical moral issues. The addition of six new topics makes this edition even more valuable than the first."

--Hugh LaFollette, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

Praise for the First Edition

"It's hard to think of a better general introduction to contemporary debates in applied ethics and public policy. The editors have enlisted well-known philosophers to pair off on particular controversies, and they do so ably and instructively. This volume will work well as a textbook for university courses."

--Christopher Morris, University of Maryland

"Great writers joining debate on great topics. Cohen and Wellman have assembled an admirably compact volume, given its breadth. It will be of considerable service to teachers of moral problems courses and to anyone with an interest in the cutting edge of applied ethics."

--David Schmidtz, University of Arizona