Philosophy As Diplomacy

by Iannone, A. Pablo

• ISBN13: 9780391038080
• ISBN10: 0391038087
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Summary

Professor A. P. Iannone develops the novel conception of philosophy as diplomacy, with two main objectives in view. The first is to help integrate the languages, concepts, and methods of ethics and sociopolitical philosophy with those of political science, sociology and social psychology, technology, institutions, business studies, and the policy-making community in a manner that is reasonably accessible to the general public. The second is to outline an approach for dealing with a wide range of current policy-making problems in a politically sound and morally sensitive manner.
This approach combines attention to rights, consequences, and pragmatic considerations, and is thus free from the shortcomings of simplistic theories that focus only on consequences, or merely on rights or obligations, and, in turn, disregard the constraints of time, resources, and political pressures on policy making.

Author Biography

A. Pablo Iannone is Professor of Philosophy at Central Connecticut State University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Issues and Issue-Overload: A Challenge to Moral Philosophy	p. 1
Social Traps: High-Tech Weapons, Rarefied Theories, and the World of Politics	p. 15
Social Choice Theory: Formalism Infatuation and Policy-Making Realities	p. 27
Informing the Public: Ethics, Policy-Making, and Objectivity in News Reporting	p. 40
Critical Interaction: Judgment, Decision, and the Social Testing of Moral Hypotheses	p. 55
Philosophy as Diplomacy	p. 70
A Delicate Balance: Reason, Social Interaction, Disruption, and Scope in Ethics and Policy-Making	p. 87
Practical Equity: Dealing with the Varieties of Policy and Decision Problems	p. 112
Between Triviality and Worth: Computers, Education, and Self-Esteem	p. 151
Like the Phoenix: Ethics, Policy-Making, and the U.S. Nuclear Energy Controversy	p. 165
Bridging Gaps in Babel: Ethics, Technology, and Policy-Making	p. 181
Between Negotiation and Combat: Ethics, Politics, and Regional Wars in a Fluid World Order	p. 196
Notes	p. 215
Selected Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 261
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