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Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics
"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." "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." "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."
—Hugh LaFollette, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
Praise for the First Edition
—Christopher Morris, University of Maryland
—David Schmidtz, University of Arizona
Andrew I. Cohen (Edited by), Christopher Heath Wellman (Edited by)
9781118479391, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 29 November 2013
472 pages
24.4 x 17 x 2.3 cm, 0.93 kg
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.
Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Ethical Theory 11 1 Theories of Ethics Issues in Life and Death 33 Abortion 35 2 The Wrong of Abortion 37 3 The Moral Permissibility of Abortion 51 Euthanasia 63 4 In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide 65 5 A Case Against Euthanasia 82 Animals 93 6 Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection 95 7 Animals and Their Medical Use 109 Issues in Justice 121 Affirmative action 123 8 A Defense of Affirmative Action 125 9 Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic 141 Capital punishment 157 10 A Defense of the Death Penalty 159 11 Why We Should Put the Death Penalty to Rest 175 Reparations 189 12 Compensation and Past Injustice 191 13 Must We Provide Material Redress for Past Wrongs? 203 Profi ling 217 14 Bayesian Inference and Contractualist Justification on Interstate 95 15 Racial Profiling and the Meaning of Racial Categories 232 Torture 245 16 Ticking Time-Bombs and Torture 247 17 Torture and its Apologists 260 Issues of Privacy and The Good 273 Same-sex marriage 275 18 Same-Sex Marriage and the Definitional Objection 277 19 Making Sense of Marriage 290 Pornography 305 20 The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality307 21 “The Price We Pay”? Pornography and Harm 319 Drugs 333 22 In Favor of Drug Decriminalization 335 23 Against the Legalization of Drugs 346 Issues of Cosmopolitanism and Community 359 Immigration 361 24 Immigration: The Case for Limits 363 25 The Case for Open Immigration 376 Humanitarian intervention 389 26 The Moral Structure of Humanitarian Intervention 391 27 The Morality of Humanitarian Intervention 404 World hunger 417 28 Famine Relief: The Duties We Have to Others 419 29 Famine Relief and Human Virtue 431 Index 447
Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman
Stephen L. Darwall 13
Patrick Lee and Robert P. George
Margaret Olivia Little
Michael Tooley
Daniel Callahan
Tom Regan
R.G. Frey
Albert Mosley
Celia Wolf-Devine
Louis P. Pojman
Stephen Nathanson
Bernard Boxill
Nahshon Perez
Arthur Isak Applbaum 219
Deborah Hellman
Fritz Allhoff
Bob Brecher
John Corvino
Sherif Girgis
Andrew Altman
Susan J. Brison
Douglas Husak
Peter de Marneffe
David Miller
Chandran Kukathas
Fernando R. Tesón
Bas van der Vossen
Christopher Heath Wellman
Andrew I. Cohen
Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
