Now in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns.
Revised and updated new edition with six new pairs of essays on prominent contemporary issues including torture and same-sex marriage, and a survey of theories of ethics by Stephen Darwall Leading philosophers tackle colleagues with opposing views in contrasting essays on core issues in applied ethics An ideal semester-length course text certain to generate vigorous discussion
Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman Ethical Theory 11 1 Theories of Ethics Stephen L. Darwall 13 Issues in Life and Death 33 Abortion 35 2 The Wrong of Abortion 37 Patrick Lee and Robert P. George 3 The Moral Permissibility of Abortion 51 Margaret Olivia Little Euthanasia 63 4 In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide 65 Michael Tooley 5 A Case Against Euthanasia 82 Daniel Callahan Animals 93 6 Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection 95 Tom Regan 7 Animals and Their Medical Use 109 R.G. Frey Issues in Justice 121 Affirmative action 123 8 A Defense of Affirmative Action 125 Albert Mosley 9 Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic 141 Celia Wolf-Devine Capital punishment 157 10 A Defense of the Death Penalty 159 Louis P. Pojman 11 Why We Should Put the Death Penalty to Rest 175 Stephen Nathanson Reparations 189 12 Compensation and Past Injustice 191 Bernard Boxill 13 Must We Provide Material Redress for Past Wrongs? 203 Nahshon Perez Profi ling 217 14 Bayesian Inference and Contractualist Justification on Interstate 95 Arthur Isak Applbaum 219 15 Racial Profiling and the Meaning of Racial Categories 232 Deborah Hellman Torture 245 16 Ticking Time-Bombs and Torture 247 Fritz Allhoff 17 Torture and its Apologists 260 Bob Brecher Issues of Privacy and The Good 273 Same-sex marriage 275 18 Same-Sex Marriage and the Definitional Objection 277 John Corvino 19 Making Sense of Marriage 290 Sherif Girgis Pornography 305 20 The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality307 Andrew Altman 21 “The Price We Pay”? Pornography and Harm 319 Susan J. Brison Drugs 333 22 In Favor of Drug Decriminalization 335 Douglas Husak 23 Against the Legalization of Drugs 346 Peter de Marneffe Issues of Cosmopolitanism and Community 359 Immigration 361 24 Immigration: The Case for Limits 363 David Miller 25 The Case for Open Immigration 376 Chandran Kukathas Humanitarian intervention 389 26 The Moral Structure of Humanitarian Intervention 391 Fernando R. Tesón 27 The Morality of Humanitarian Intervention 404 Bas van der Vossen World hunger 417 28 Famine Relief: The Duties We Have to Others 419 Christopher Heath Wellman 29 Famine Relief and Human Virtue 431 Andrew I. Cohen Index 447
Andrew I. Cohen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University, USA, and Director of its Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics. His published work focuses on rights theory and political philosophy and includes co-editorship of this volume?s first edition (Blackwell, 2005). Professor Cohen is currently researching issues concerning reparations and public contrition for past injustices that in many cases continue to inflame geopolitical sensibilities. Christopher Heath Wellman is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. A specialist in the ethical aspects of political and legal philosophy, his books include the forthcoming Liberal Rights and Responsibilities: Debating the Ethics of Immigration (due for publication in 2013), and A Liberal Theory of International Justice (2009, with Andrew Altman), in addition to co-editing the first edition of this work.
Reviews for Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics
?This is a superb collection of engaging and specially commissioned paired essays advancing competing solutions to fourteen important practical moral issues. The addition of six new topics makes this edition even more valuable than the first.? ?Hugh LaFollette, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Praise for the First Edition ?It?s hard to think of a better general introduction to contemporary debates in applied ethics and public policy. The editors have enlisted well-known philosophers to pair off on particular controversies, and they do so ably and instructively. This volume will work well as a textbook for university courses.? ?Christopher Morris, University of Maryland ?Great writers joining debate on great topics. Cohen and Wellman have assembled an admirably compact volume, given its breadth. It will be of considerable service to teachers of moral problems courses and to anyone with an interest in the cutting edge of applied ethics.? ?David Schmidtz, University of Arizona
