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Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics


Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics


Contemporary Debates in Philosophy 2. Aufl.

von: Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman

36,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 14.01.2014
ISBN/EAN: 9781118479872
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 472

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<p><b>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.</b></p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Leading philosophers tackle colleagues with opposing views in contrasting essays on core issues in applied ethics</li> <li>An ideal semester-length course text certain to generate vigorous discussion</li> </ul>
<p>Notes on Contributors vii</p> <p>Acknowledgments xiii</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman</i></p> <p><b>Ethical Theory 11</b></p> <p>1 Theories of Ethics <br /><i>Stephen L. Darwall </i>13</p> <p><b>Issues in Life and Death 33</b></p> <p><b>Abortion 35</b></p> <p>2 The Wrong of Abortion 37<br /><i>Patrick Lee and Robert P. George</i></p> <p>3 The Moral Permissibility of Abortion 51<br /><i>Margaret Olivia Little</i></p> <p><b>Euthanasia 63</b></p> <p>4 In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide 65<br /><i>Michael Tooley</i></p> <p>5 A Case Against Euthanasia 82<br /><i>Daniel Callahan</i></p> <p><b>Animals 93</b></p> <p>6 Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection 95<br /><i>Tom Regan</i></p> <p>7 Animals and Their Medical Use 109<br /><i>R.G. Frey</i></p> <p><b>Issues in Justice 121</b></p> <p><b>Affirmative action 123</b></p> <p>8 A Defense of Affirmative Action 125<br /><i>Albert Mosley</i></p> <p>9 Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic 141<br /><i>Celia Wolf-Devine</i></p> <p><b>Capital punishment 157</b></p> <p>10 A Defense of the Death Penalty 159<br /><i>Louis P. Pojman</i></p> <p>11 Why We Should Put the Death Penalty to Rest 175<br /><i>Stephen Nathanson</i></p> <p><b>Reparations 189</b></p> <p>12 Compensation and Past Injustice 191<br /><i>Bernard Boxill</i></p> <p>13 Must We Provide Material Redress for Past Wrongs? 203<br /><i>Nahshon Perez</i></p> <p><b>Profi ling 217</b></p> <p>14 Bayesian Inference and Contractualist Justification on Interstate 95<br /><i>Arthur Isak Applbaum </i>219</p> <p>15 Racial Profiling and the Meaning of Racial Categories 232<br /><i>Deborah Hellman</i></p> <p><b>Torture 245</b></p> <p>16 Ticking Time-Bombs and Torture 247<br /><i>Fritz Allhoff</i></p> <p>17 Torture and its Apologists 260<br /><i>Bob Brecher</i></p> <p><b>Issues of Privacy and The Good 273</b></p> <p><b>Same-sex marriage 275</b></p> <p>18 Same-Sex Marriage and the Definitional Objection 277<br /><i>John Corvino</i></p> <p>19 Making Sense of Marriage 290<br /><i>Sherif Girgis</i></p> <p><b>Pornography 305</b></p> <p>20 The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality307<br /><i>Andrew Altman</i></p> <p>21 “The Price We Pay”? Pornography and Harm 319<br /><i>Susan J. Brison</i></p> <p><b>Drugs 333</b></p> <p>22 In Favor of Drug Decriminalization 335<br /><i>Douglas Husak</i></p> <p>23 Against the Legalization of Drugs 346<br /><i>Peter de Marneffe</i></p> <p><b>Issues of Cosmopolitanism and Community 359</b></p> <p><b>Immigration 361</b></p> <p>24 Immigration: The Case for Limits 363<br /><i>David Miller</i></p> <p>25 The Case for Open Immigration 376<br /><i>Chandran Kukathas</i></p> <p><b>Humanitarian intervention 389</b></p> <p>26 The Moral Structure of Humanitarian Intervention 391<br /><i>Fernando R. Tesón</i></p> <p>27 The Morality of Humanitarian Intervention 404<br /><i>Bas van der Vossen</i></p> <p><b>World hunger 417</b></p> <p>28 Famine Relief: The Duties We Have to Others 419<br /><i>Christopher Heath Wellman</i></p> <p>29 Famine Relief and Human Virtue 431<br /><i>Andrew I. Cohen</i></p> <p>Index 447</p>
<p><b>Andrew I. Cohen</b> 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.</p> <p><b>Christopher Heath Wellman</b> 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 <i>Liberal Rights and Responsibilities: Debating the Ethics of Immigration</i> (due for publication in 2013), and <i>A Liberal Theory of International Justice</i> (2009, with Andrew Altman), in addition to co-editing the first edition of this work.</p>
<p>This new edition of compelling commentary on substantive ethical issues has been updated to encompass high-profile contemporary concerns such as torture, same-sex marriage, and reparations for the violent injustices of the past. Six pairs of newly commissioned essays join a revised selection of the book's vigorous debates between leading philosophers with contrasting views. Also included in this new edition is a concise and insightful overview essay from Stephen Darwall, outlining the current landscape of ethical theory — vital context for students grappling with concepts that shape the shifting mores of human societies.</p> <p>The rhetorical power of the first edition's adversarial format was a potent catalyst for scholarly engagement. This fresh edition benefits from the same editorial finesse, enhanced by a broadened academic purview, with themed sections exploring life and death, concepts of justice, privacy and the common good, and issues relating to human communities in our restless, hungry, warming world.</p> <p>This accessible text locates the pressure points of core issues in applied ethics. It aims to foster the informed discussion required to nourish a new generation of philosophers.</p>
<p>"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."<br />—<b>Hugh LaFollette, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg<br /><br />Praise for the First Edition</b></p> <p>"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."<br />—<b>Christopher Morris, University of Maryland</b></p> <p>"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."<br />—<b>David Schmidtz, University of Arizona</b></p>

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