Contributor
LaFollette, Hugh, 1948-
Edition Statement:3rd ed.
Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Descriptionxvi, 745 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Consequentialism / Peter Vallentyne. - Deontology / David McNaughton, Picrs Rawling. - Virtue theory / Rosalind Hursthouse. - Rule-utilitarianism and euthanasia / Brad Hooker. - Justifying physician-assisted deaths / Tom L. Beauchamp. - Against the right to die / J. David Velleman. - Dying at the right time : reflections on (un)assisted suicide / John Hardwig. - A duty to care revisited / Felicia Cohn, Joanne Lynn. - A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson. - On the moral and legal status of abortion / Mary Anne Warren. - An argument that abortion is wrong / Don Marquis. - The moral permissibility of abortion / Margaret Olivia Little. - Virtue theory and abortion / Rosalind Hursthouse. - All animals are equal / Peter Singer. - The moral community / Michael Allen Fox. - Moral standing, the value of lives, and speciesism / R. G. Frey. - The case for animal rights / Tom Regan. - What do grown children owe their parents? / Jane English. - Morality, parents, and children / James Rachels. - Artificial means of reproduction and our understanding of the family / Ruth Macklin. - Is women's labor a commodity? / Elizabeth S. Anderson. - "Goodbye Dolly?" : the ethics of human cloning / John Harris. - The wisdom of repugnance : why we should ban the cloning of humans / Leon R. Kass. - Morality and human sexuality / Vincent C. Punzo. - Plain sex / Alan H. Goldman. - Why homosexuality is abnormal / Michael Levin. - Homosexuality and the moral relevance of experience / John Corvino. - Freedom of action / John Stuart Mill. - On improving people by political means / Lester H. Hunt. - Against the legalization of drugs / James Q. Wilson. - Why we should decriminalize drug use / Douglas Husak. - The liberal basis of the right to bear arms / Todd C. Hughes, Lester H. Hunt. - Gun control / Hugh LaFollette. - Freedom of thought and discussion / John Stuart Mill. - "The price we pay?" : pornography and harm / Susan J. Brison. - The right to get turned on : pornography, autonomy, equality / Andrew Altman. - Sticks and stones / John Arthur. - Speech codes and expressive harm / Andrew Altman. - Racism / Michele Moody-Adams. - Servility and self-respect / Thomas E. Hill, Jr. - Sexual harassment / Anita M. Superson. - Date rape / Lois Pineau. - Men in groups : collective responsibility for rape / Larry May, Robert Strikwerda. - The case against affirmative action / Louis P. Pojman. - The rights of Allan Bakke / Ronald Dworkin. - Affirmative action as equalizing opportunity : challenging the myth of "preferential treatment" / Luke Charles Harris, Uma Narayan. - Punishment and desert / James Rachels. - Out of character : on the psychology of excuses in the criminal law / John M. Doris. - Does punishment work? / John Paul Wright, Francis T. Cullen, Kevin M. Beaver. - In defense of the death penalty / Louis P. Pojman. - Against the death penalty / Jeffrey Reiman. - A theory of justice / John Rawls. - The entitlement theory of justice / Robert Nozick. - Displacing the distributive paradigm / Iris Marion Young. - Economic competition : should we care about the losers? / Jonathan Wolff. - Famine, affluence, and morality / Peter Singer. - Famine relief and the ideal moral code / John Arthur. - Eradicating systemic poverty : brief for a global resources dividend / Thomas W. Pogge. - Feeding people versus saving nature / Holmes Rolston III. - The land ethic / Aldo Leopold. - A place for cost-benefit analysis / David Schmidtz. - Ideals of human excellence and preserving : natural environments / Thomas E. Hill, Jr. - Hume and nature / Alan Carter. - Just war doctrine and the military response to terrorism / Joseph Boyle. - Nipping evil in the bud : the questionable ethics of preventive force / Douglas P. Lackey. - The justifiability of humanitarian intervention / Charles R. Beitz. - Pacifism : reclaiming the moral presumption / William J. Hawk.
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