Contemporary Debates In Applied Ethics,9781405115483

Contemporary Debates In Applied Ethics

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ISBN13: 9781405115483
ISBN10: 1405115483
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-01-24
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics features pairs of newly commissioned essays by some of the leading theorists working in the field today. Brings together fresh debates on eleven of the most controversial issues in applied ethics Topics addressed include abortion, affirmative action, animals, capital punishment, cloning, euthanasia, immigration, pornography, privacy in civil society, values in nature, and world hunger. Lively debate format sharply defines the issues, and paves the way for further discussion. Will serve as an accessible introduction to the major topics in applied ethics, whilst also capturing the imagination of professional philosophers.

Author Biography

Andrew I. Cohen is Associate Director of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics and teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University.


Christopher Heath Wellman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He is co-editor, with R. G. Frey, of A Companion to Applied Ethics (Blackwell 2003).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction 1(10)
ABORTION
11(30)
The Wrong of Abortion
13(14)
Patrick Lee
Robert P. George
The Moral Permissibility of Abortion
27(14)
Margaret Olivia Little
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
41(34)
A Defense of Affirmative Action
43(16)
Albert Mosley
Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic
59(16)
Celia Wolf-Devine
ANIMALS
75(30)
Empty Cages: Animals Rights and Vivisection
77(14)
Tom Regan
Animals and Their Medical Use
91(14)
R. G. Frey
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
105(34)
A Defense of the Death Penalty
107(17)
Louis P. Pojman
Why We Should Put the Death Penalty to Rest
124(15)
Stephen Nathanson
CLONING
139(20)
Why I Oppose Human Cloning
141(4)
Jeremy Rifkin
The Poverty of Objections to Human Reproductive Cloning
145(14)
John Harris
EUTHANASIA
159(32)
In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
161(18)
Michael Tooley
A Case Against Euthanasia
179(12)
Daniel Callahan
IMMIGRATION
191(30)
Immigration: The Case for Limits
193(14)
David Miller
The Case for Open Immigration
207(14)
Chandran Kukathas
PORNOGRAPHY
221(30)
The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality
223(13)
Andrew Altman
``The Price We Pay''? Pornography and Harm
236(15)
Susan J. Brison
PRIVACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
251(26)
The Limits of Privacy
253(10)
Amitai Etzioni
The Case for Privacy
263(14)
David D. Friedman
VALUES IN NATURE
277(34)
The Intrinsic Value of Nature in Public Policy: The Case of the Endangered Species Act
279(19)
J. Baird Callicott
Values in Nature: A Pluralistic Approach
298(13)
Bryan G. Norton
WORLD HUNGER
311(32)
Famine Relief: The Duties We Have to Others
313(13)
Christopher Heath Wellman
Famine Relief and Human Virtue
326(17)
Andrew I. Cohen
Index 343

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