Cohen / Wellman Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics

2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-47987-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 472 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Andrew I.

Wellman, Christopher Heath

Inhaltsverzeichnis

[*new to second edition]
Notes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman 1
ETHICAL THEORY 11
1 *Theories of Ethics Stephen L. Darwall 13
ISSUES IN LIFE AND DEATH 33
Abortion 35
2 The Wrong of Abortion Patrick Lee and Robert P. George 37
3 The Moral Permissibility of Abortion Margaret Olivia Little51
Euthanasia 63
4 In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and AssistedSuicide
Michael Tooley 65
5 A Case Against Euthanasia Daniel Callahan 82
Animals 93
6 Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection Tom Regan 95
7 Animals and Their Medical Use R.G. Frey 109
ISSUES IN JUSTICE 121
Affi rmative action 123
8 A Defense of Affi rmative Action Albert Mosley 125
9 Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic Celia Wolf-Devine141
Capital punishment 157
10 A Defense of the Death Penalty Louis P. Pojman 159
11 Why We Should Put the Death Penalty to Rest Stephen Nathanson175
Reparations 189
12 *Compensation and Past Injustice Bernard Boxill 191
13 *Must We Provide Material Redress for Past Wrongs? NahshonPerez 203
Profi ling 217
14 *Bayesian Inference and Contractualist Justifi cation onInterstate 95
Arthur Isak Applbaum 219
15 *Racial Profi ling and the Meaning of Racial CategoriesDeborah Hellman 232
Torture 245
16 *Ticking Time-Bombs and Torture Fritz Allhoff 247
17 *Torture and its Apologists Bob Brecher 260
ISSUES OF PRIVACY AND THE GOOD 273
Same-sex marriage 275
18 *Same-Sex Marriage and the Defi nitional Objection JohnCorvino 277
19 *Making Sense of Marriage Sherif Girgis 290
Pornography 305
20 The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy,Equality
Andrew Altman 307
21 "The Price We Pay"? Pornography and Harm Susan J.Brison 319
Drugs 333
22 *In Favor of Drug Decriminalization Douglas Husak 335
23 *Against the Legalization of Drugs Peter de Marneffe 346
ISSUES OF COSMOPOLITANISM AND COMMUNITY 359
Immigration 361
24 Immigration: The Case for Limits David Miller 363
25 The Case for Open Immigration Chandran Kukathas 376
Humanitarian intervention 389
26 *The Moral Structure of Humanitarian Intervention Fernando R.Tesón 391
27 *The Morality of Humanitarian Intervention Bas van der Vossen404
World hunger 417
28 Famine Relief: The Duties We Have to Others Christopher HeathWellman 419
29 Famine Relief and Human Virtue Andrew I. Cohen 431
Index 447

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew I. Cohen is Associate Professor of Philosophy atGeorgia State University, USA, and Director of its Jean BeerBlumenfeld Center for Ethics. His published work focuses on rightstheory and political philosophy and includes co-editorship of thisvolume's first edition (Blackwell, 2005). Professor Cohen iscurrently researching issues concerning reparations and publiccontrition for past injustices that in many cases continue toinflame geopolitical sensibilities.
Christopher Heath Wellman is Professor of Philosophy atWashington University in St. Louis, USA. A specialist in theethical aspects of political and legal philosophy, his booksinclude the forthcoming Liberal Rights and Responsibilities:Debating the Ethics of Immigration (due for publication in2013), and A Liberal Theory of International Justice (2009,with Andrew Altman), in addition to co-editing the first edition ofthis work.