Respect Philosophical Essays

by Dean, Richard; Sensen, Oliver

• ISBN13: 9780198824930
• ISBN10: 0198824939
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-07-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Richard Dean, California State University, Los Angeles,Oliver Sensen, Tulane University

Richard Dean is a Professor is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Los Angeles. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has previously taught at Rutgers University and the American University of Beirut. His main areas of research are the history of moral philosophy, especially Kant's ethics, and contemporary normative theory. He also has interests in empirical approaches to moral philosophy, applied ethics, and political philosophy.

Oliver Sensen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. He has a PhD from Cambridge University and has previously held the position of teaching fellow at Harvard University, as well as Visiting Professor at MIT, the University of Chicago, and the University of Bremen. He has been invited for a visiting appointment at the Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad, and is part of the faculty in the Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values at Tulane's Medical School. His research mainly focuses on dignity, autonomy, respect, free will, and Kant's philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Richard Dean and Oliver Sensen
Respect: A History, Remy Debes
Part I. On What Respect Is
A Conversive Theory of Respect, Philip Pettit
Respect for Persons and Public Justification, Gerald Gaus
The Phenomenology of Kantian Respect for Persons, Uriah Kriegel and Mark Timmons
How to Treat Someone with Respect, Oliver Sensen
Part II. Respect in Moral Theory
Respect and the Dynamics of Finitude, Carla Bagnoli
The Peculiar Idea of Respect for a Capacity, Richard Dean
Beyond Respect and Beneficence: An Ideal of Appreciation, Thomas Hill, Jr.
Valuing Our Humanity, Christine Korsgaard
On a Kantian Form of Respect: "Before a Humble Common Man... My Spirit Bows", Stephen Darwall
Part III. Applications of Respect
Self-Respect, Arrogance, and Power: A Feminist Analysis, Robin Dillon
Self-Respect Under Conditions of Oppression, Serene Khader
A Lack of Respect in Bioethics, Samuel Kerstein
Treating Disabled Adults as Children: An Application of Kant's Conception of Respect, Adam Cureton
Species Egalitarianism and Respect for Nature: Of Mice and Carrots, Lucia Schwarz