Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics
Cohen, Andrew I.; Wellman, Christopher Heath eds. 20050131 Wiley-Blackwell, 360p.
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■Cohen, Andrew I.; Wellman, Christopher Heath eds. 20050131 Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell, 360p. ASIN:1405115483 ISBN-13:978-1405115483 \3650 [amazon]/[kinokuniya] ※ c19 w0111
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内容説明
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.
著者について
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).
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Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Abortion
1. The Wrong of Abortion
2. The Moral Permissibility of Abortion
Affirmative Action
3. A Defense of Affirmative Action
4. Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic
Animals
5. Empty Cages: Animals Rights and Vivisection
6. Animals and Their Medical Use
Capital Punishment
7. A Defense of the Death Penalty
8. Why We Should Put the Death Penalty to Rest
Cloning
9. Why I Oppose Human Cloning
10. The Poverty of Objections to Human Reproductive Cloning
Euthanasia
11. In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
12. A Case Against Euthanasia
Immigration
13. Immigration:The Case for Limits
14. The Case for Open Immigration
Pornography
15. The Right to Get Turned On:Pornography, Autonomy, Equality
16. "The Price We Pay"?: Pornography and Harm
Privacy and Civil Society
17. The Limits of Privacy
18. The Case for Privacy
Values in Nature
19. The Intrinsic Value of Nature in Public Policy: The Case of the Endangered Species Act
20. Values in Nature: A Pluralistic Approach
World Hunger
21. Famine Relief: The Duties We Have to Others
22. Famine Relief and Human Virtue
Index
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