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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).

■目次

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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