Contemporary Debates In Applied Ethics

by Cohen, Andrew I.; Wellman, Christopher Heath

• ISBN13: 9781405115476
• ISBN10: 1405115475
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Notes on Contributors	viii
Introduction	1	(10)
ABORTION	11	(30)
The Wrong of Abortion	13	(14)
Patrick Lee
Robert P. George
The Moral Permissibility of Abortion	27	(14)
Margaret Olivia Little
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION	41	(34)
A Defense of Affirmative Action	43	(16)
Albert Mosley
Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic	59	(16)
Celia Wolf-Devine
ANIMALS	75	(30)
Empty Cages: Animals Rights and Vivisection	77	(14)
Tom Regan
Animals and Their Medical Use	91	(14)
R. G. Frey
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT	105	(34)
A Defense of the Death Penalty	107	(17)
Louis P. Pojman
Why We Should Put the Death Penalty to Rest	124	(15)
Stephen Nathanson
CLONING	139	(20)
Why I Oppose Human Cloning	141	(4)
Jeremy Rifkin
The Poverty of Objections to Human Reproductive Cloning	145	(14)
John Harris
EUTHANASIA	159	(32)
In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide	161	(18)
Michael Tooley
A Case Against Euthanasia	179	(12)
Daniel Callahan
IMMIGRATION	191	(30)
Immigration: The Case for Limits	193	(14)
David Miller
The Case for Open Immigration	207	(14)
Chandran Kukathas
PORNOGRAPHY	221	(30)
The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality	223	(13)
Andrew Altman
``The Price We Pay''? Pornography and Harm	236	(15)
Susan J. Brison
PRIVACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY	251	(26)
The Limits of Privacy	253	(10)
Amitai Etzioni
The Case for Privacy	263	(14)
David D. Friedman
VALUES IN NATURE	277	(34)
The Intrinsic Value of Nature in Public Policy: The Case of the Endangered Species Act	279	(19)
J. Baird Callicott
Values in Nature: A Pluralistic Approach	298	(13)
Bryan G. Norton
WORLD HUNGER	311	(32)
Famine Relief: The Duties We Have to Others	313	(13)
Christopher Heath Wellman
Famine Relief and Human Virtue	326	(17)
Andrew I. Cohen
Index	343