LEADER 05485nam 2200697 450 001 9910820390603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-118-47987-4 010 $a1-118-47983-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001189660 035 $a(EBL)1597998 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001154972 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11729559 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001154972 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11177600 035 $a(PQKB)10591530 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1597998 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1597998 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10829279 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL568585 035 $a(OCoLC)868491522 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7103715 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7103715 035 $a(PPN)176414983 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001189660 100 $a20140129h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aContemporary debates in applied ethics /$fedited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aChichester, England :$cWiley-Blackwell,$d2014. 210 4$d2014 215 $a1 online resource (474 p.) 225 0$aContemporary debates in philosophy ;$v15 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-118-47939-4 311 $a1-306-37334-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aCover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Issues of Life and Death; Issues in Justice; Issues of Privacy and the Good; Issues of Cosmospolitanism and Community; Ethical Theory; CHAPTER ONE: Theories of Ethics; Case Ethics; Normative Ethical Theory; Meta-ethics; Contractarianism/Contractualism; Contractarianism; Contractualism; Consequentialism; Deontology; Virtue Theory; CHAPTER TWO: The Wrong of Abortion; Human Embryos and Fetuses are Complete (though Immature) Human Beings; No-Person Arguments: The Dualist Version 327 $aNo-Person Arguments: The Evaluative VersionThe Argument that Abortion is Justified as Non-intentional Killing; CHAPTER THREE: The Moral Permissibility of Abortion; Introduction; The Moral Status of Embryos and Early Fetuses; Abortion and Gestational Assistance; Intimacy, Pregnancy, and Motherhood; Norms of Responsible Creation; CHAPTER FOUR: In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide; Important Concepts and Distinctions; A Fundamental Defense of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia; The argument; The soundness of the argument 327 $aVoluntary Passive Euthanasia versus Voluntary Active EuthanasiaThe argument; An evaluation of the second argument; Should Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Active Euthanasia Be Legal?; CHAPTER FIVE: A Case Against Euthanasia; Suicide: The Way (Rarely) Taken; Three Arguments in Favor of Euthanasia; Euthanasia as a Social, not Private, Act; Euthanasia and the Law; The Dutch Experience; Not Pain but Loss of Control; Catering to a Small Minority; CHAPTER SIX: Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection; The Benefits Argument; What the Benefits Argument Omits; The overestimation of human benefits 327 $aThe underestimation of human harmsComparisons across species; Human Vivisection and Human Rights; Why the Benefits Argument Begs the Question; The Children of Willowbrook; The Basis of Human Rights; Why Animals Have Rights; Challenging Human and Animal Equality: Speciesism; Other Objections, Other Replies; Conclusion; CHAPTER SEVEN: Animals and Their Medical Use; The Abolitionist Appeal to Animal Rights; The "Anything Goes" View on Animals; The Value of Lives and Quality of Life; Two Senses of Moral Community; Conclusion; CHAPTER EIGHT: A Defense of Affirmative Action; Introduction 327 $aAffirmative Action as a Remedy for Past InjusticesAffirmative Action as a Form of Compensatory Justice; Standardized Tests and Race; Affirmative Action and Equal Protection; Conclusions; CHAPTER NINE: Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic; Framing the Issue; Disentangling Race and Sex; Affirmative Action for Black People: Evaluating the Arguments; The compensatory (or backward-looking) argument; Corrective argument; Forward-looking arguments; Assessing the Arguments; Conclusion; CHAPTER TEN: A Defense of the Death Penalty; In Favor of the Death Penalty; Retribution; Deterrence 327 $aObjections to the Death Penalty 330 $aNow in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns.Revised and updated new edition with six new pairs of essays on prominent contemporary issues including torture and same-sex marriage, and a survey of theories of ethics by Stephen DarwallLeading philosophers tackle colleagues with opposing views in contrasting essays on core issues in applied ethicsAn ideal semester-leng 410 0$aContemporary Debates in Philosophy 606 $aApplied ethics 615 0$aApplied ethics. 676 $a170 701 $aCohen$b Andrew I$01602461 701 $aWellman$b Christopher Heath$0855012 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820390603321 996 $aContemporary debates in applied ethics$93926450 997 $aUNINA