What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics

Name: What's Wrong? Applied Ethicists and Their Critics
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ISBN: 9780195337808

ISBN-10: 0195337808

ISBN-13: 9780195337808

Edition: 2nd 2010

Authors: David Boonin, Graham Oddie

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What's Wrong?: Applied Ethicists and Their Critics is a thorough and engaging introduction to applied ethics that covers virtually all of the issues in the field. Featuring more than ninety-five articles, it addresses standard topics - such as abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, worldhunger, and animal rights - and also delves into cutting-edge areas like cloning, racial profiling, same-sex marriage, prostitution, and slave reparations. The volume includes seminal essays by prominent philosophers (Robert Nozick, James Rachels, Peter Singer, and Judith Jarvis Thomson) alongsidework by newer voices in the field. Employing a unique approach to teaching argumentation, editors David Boonin…

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List price: $179.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 2/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 9.57" wide x 7.24" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English



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Acknowledgments


Introduction: What's Wrong with Arguing?



What's Wrong With Killing?



Is Killing in War Wrong?


Fullinwider and His Critics



""War and Innocence""


Critics



""Self-Defense and the Killing of Noncombatants: A Reply to Fullinwider""



Is Euthanasia Wrong?


Rachels and His Critics



""Active and Passive Euthanasia""


Critics



""Is Killing No Worse Than Letting Die?""