Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics

Andrew I. Cohen 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2014년 01월 14일 출간

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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 DarwallLeading philosophers tackle colleagues with opposing views in contrasting essays on core issues in applied ethicsAn ideal semester-length course text certain to generate vigorous discussion

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[*new to second edition]Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman 1ETHICAL THEORY 111 *Theories of Ethics Stephen L. Darwall 13ISSUES IN LIFE AND DEATH 33Abortion 352 The Wrong of Abortion Patrick Lee and Robert P. George 373 The Moral Permissibility of Abortion Margaret Olivia Little 51Euthanasia 634 In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted SuicideMichael Tooley 655 A Case Against Euthanasia Daniel Callahan 82Animals 936 Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection Tom Regan 957 Animals and Their Medical Use R.G. Frey 109ISSUES IN JUSTICE 121Affi rmative action 1238 A Defense of Affi rmative Action Albert Mosley 1259 Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic Celia Wolf-Devine 141Capital punishment 15710 A Defense of the Death Penalty Louis P. Pojman 15911 Why We Should Put the Death Penalty to Rest Stephen Nathanson 175Reparations 18912 *Compensation and Past Injustice Bernard Boxill 19113 *Must We Provide Material Redress for Past Wrongs? Nahshon Perez 203Profi ling 21714 *Bayesian Inference and Contractualist Justifi cation on Interstate 95Arthur Isak Applbaum 21915 *Racial Profi ling and the Meaning of Racial Categories Deborah Hellman 232Torture 24516 *Ticking Time-Bombs and Torture Fritz Allhoff 24717 *Torture and its Apologists Bob Brecher 260ISSUES OF PRIVACY AND THE GOOD 273Same-sex marriage 27518 *Same-Sex Marriage and the Defi nitional Objection John Corvino 27719 *Making Sense of Marriage Sherif Girgis 290Pornography 30520 The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, EqualityAndrew Altman 30721 “The Price We Pay”? Pornography and Harm Susan J. Brison 319Drugs 33322 *In Favor

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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.