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9781405133456

A Companion To Applied Ethics

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    9781405133456

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    1405133457

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-01-24
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

In recent years, many important moral, social, and political issues have come under philosophical scrutiny, with the result that applied or practical ethics has become one of the largest areas of growth in philosophy. These specially commissioned essays by many of the leading figures in applied ethics track that growth. They provide substantive discussions of the pressing issues that orient around the topics in question, and, collectively, constitute an in-depth, state-of-the-art account of present-day philosophical thinking in practical ethics. A Companion to Applied Ethics is the most ambitious and authoritative account of applied ethics available. The volume will serve professionals as an indispensable resource, and, because it is written accessibly, will provide students and educated laymen with an excellent guide to the current state of play in substantive discussion by philosophers of major moral, social, and political issues.

Author Biography

R. G. Frey is Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on applied ethics, normative theory, and the history of eighteenth-century British moral philosophy. With Gerald Dworkin and Sissela Bok, he is the author of Euthanasia and Physician-assisted Suicide (1998).


Christopher Heath Wellman is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He is co-editor, with Andrew Cohen, of Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics (Blackwell 2004).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xvii
1 The Nature of Applied Ethics
1(16)
Tom L. Beauchamp
2 Theories of Ethics
17(21)
Stephen L. Darwall
3 Property Rights and Welfare Redistribution
38(12)
Jeremy Waldron
4 Civil Disobedience and the Duty to Obey the Law
50(12)
A. John Simmons
5 Capitalism and Marxism
62(13)
Richard W. Miller
6 State Punishment and the Death Penalty
75(14)
David Dolinko
7 Racism
89(13)
Michele Moody-Adams
8 Sexism
102(16)
Ann E. Cudd and Leslie E. Jones
9 Affirmative Action
118(10)
Bernard Boxill and Jan Boxill
10 The Legal Enforcement of Morality 128(14)
Larry Alexander
11 Hate Crimes, Literature, and Speech 142(12)
L.W. Sumner
12 Pornography and Censorship 154(13)
Lori Gruen
13 Dirty Hands 167(13)
Gerald F. Gaus
14 Sexual Ethics 180(12)
Alan H. Goldman
15 Gun Control 192(18)
Lance Stell
16 Citizenship 210(14)
Wayne Norman and Will Kymlicka
17 Immigration 224(14)
Michael Blake
18 World Hunger 238(16)
Hugh LaFollette
19 War and Terrorism 254(13)
C.A.J. Coady
20 Nationalism and Secession 267(12)
Christopher Heath Wellman
21 Intergenerational Justice 279(16)
Clark Wolf
22 Bioethics 295(18)
Margaret P. Battin
23 Abortion 313(13)
Margaret Olivia Little
24 Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide 326(16)
Michael Tooley
25 Reproductive Technology 342(14)
John D. Arras
26 Genetic Engineering 356(13)
Dan W. Brock
27 Surrogate Motherhood 369(13)
Rosemarie Tong
28 Cloning 382(14)
John Harris
29 Allocation of Medical Resources 396(14)
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr and Ana Smith Iltis
30 Experimentation on Human Subjects 410(14)
Patrick Boleyn-Fitzgerald
31 Disability 424(15)
Leslie Pickering Francis
32 Moral Status 439(12)
Mary Anne Warren
33 Killing and Letting Die 451(13)
Alastair Norcross
34 The Doctrine of Double Effect 464(11)
R.G. Prey
35 Bad Samaritans, Acts, and Omissions 475(12)
Patricia Smith
36 Moral Dilemmas 487(11)
N. Ann Davis
37 Education 498(14)
Amy Gutmann
38 Personal Relationships 512(13)
Lawrence A. Blum
39 Animals 525(12)
Jeff McMahan
40 Business Ethics 537(15)
Patricia H. Werhane and R. Edward Freeman
41 Corporate Responsibility 552(18)
R. Edward Freeman and Patricia H. Werhane
42 Whistle-blowing 570(13)
Terrance McConnell
43 Professional Ethics 583(14)
David Luban
44 Media Ethics 597(11)
Judith Lichtenberg
45 Computer Ethics 608(12)
Deborah G. Johnson
46 Engineering Ethics 620(13)
Michael S. Pritchard
47 Environmental Ethics 633(17)
Andrew Light
48 Values in Nature 650(12)
Dale Jamieson
49 The Tragedy of the Commons 662(12)
David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott
50 Global Warming 674(11)
Robert Hood
Index 685

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