Preface for Instructors
Acknowledgments
General Introduction [W] [R]
Theorizing about Ethics [W] [R]
Reading Philosophy [W] [R]
Writing a Philosophy Paper [W] [R]
Basics of Argumentation [NW]
Part I Ethical Theory
Ethical Theory
1 Consequentialism [R & R]
William H. Shaw
2 Deontology [W & R]
DavidMcNaughton and Piers Rawling [RW]
3 Rights [W & R]
GeorgeW.Rainbolt
4 Virtue Theory [W]
Rosalind Hursthouse
Part II Life, Death, and Moral Status
Euthanasia
5 Justifying Physician-Assisted Deaths [W]
Tom L. Beauchamp
6 Against the Right to Die [R]
J.David Velleman
7. Physician-Assisted Deaths: Policy Choices [NW]
Ronald Lindsey
8 Dying at the Right Time: Reflections on (Un)Assisted Suicide [W & R]
John Hardwig
9 “’For Now Have I My Death’: The ‘Duty to Die’ Versus the Duty to Help the Ill Stay Alive.”
Felicia Ackerman
Abortion
10 A Defense of Abortion
Judith Jarvis Thomson
11 On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion [R]
Mary Anne Warren
12 An Argument that Abortion is Wrong [W]
Don Marquis
13 The Moral Permissibility of Abortion
Margaret Olivia Little
14 Virtue Theory and Abortion [R]
Rosalind Hursthouse
Animals
15 All Animals are Equal
Peter Singer
16 Moral Standing, the Value of Lives, and Speciesism
R. G. Frey
17 The Case for Animal Rights
Tom Regan
18 The Vegetarian Imperative
Michael Allen Fox
Biomedical Technologies
19 Is Women’s Labor a Commodity?
Elizabeth S. Anderson
20 “Goodbye Dolly?” The Ethics of Human Cloning
John Harris
21 The Wisdom of Repugnance: Why We Should Ban the Cloning of Humans
Leon R. Kass
22 Cognitive Enhancement [NW]
Jonathan Pugh
Environment
23 The Value of Nature [W]
Ronald Sandler
24 A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis [R & R]
David Schmidtz
25 Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments
Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
26 A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics, and
the Problem of Moral Corruption [R]
Stephen M. Gardiner
Part III Liberty and Equality
Paternalism and Risk
27 Freedom of Action
John Stuart Mill
28 Against the Legalization of Drugs
James Q. Wilson
29 Why We Should Decriminalize Drug Use [R]
Douglas Husak
30 The Liberal Basis of the Right to Bear Arms [R]
Todd C. Hughes and Lester H. Hunt
31 Gun Control
Hugh LaFollette
Free Speech
32 Freedom of Thought and Discussion
John Stuart Mill
33 “The Price We Pay?” Pornography and Harm [R]
Susan J. Brison
34 The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality
Andrew Altman
35 Sticks and Stones [W]
John Arthur
36 Speech Codes and Expressive Harm [W]
Andrew Altman
Discrimination, Racism, and Sexism
37 Racism as an Ethical Issue [N]
Michele Moody-Adams
38 Servility and Self-Respect
Thomas E. Hill, Jr.
39 Implicit Bias, Awareness, and Moral Responsibility [NW]
Alex Madva
40 Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity:
Challenging the Myth of “Preferential Treatment” [W]
Luke Charles Harris and Uma Narayan
41 Sexual Harassment [NR]
Jennifer Saul
42 Men in Groups: Collective Responsibility for Rape [R]
Larry May and Robert Strikwerda
43 Ideals of Respect: Identity, Dignity and Disability [NW]
Adam Cureton
Religion, Conscience, and the State
44 Resolving Conflicts between Religious Liberty and Other Values [NW]
Mark R.Wicclair
45 Religious Conviction, Parental Authority, and Children’s Interests
Christopher Meyers [NW]
46 Gay Rights and Religious Accommodation [NW]
Adrew Koppleman
47 Conscientious Objection in Medicine [NW]
Mark R. Wicclair
48 “My Conscience May Be My Guide, but You May not Have to Honor It” [NR]
Hugh LaFollette
Part IV Justice
Punishment
49 Punishment and Desert [W]
James Rachels
50 Does Punishment Work? [W]
John Paul Wright, Francis T. Cullen, and Kevin M. Beaver
51 In Defense of the Death Penalty
Louis P. Pojman
52 Against the Death Penalty
Jeffrey Reiman
53 Just Deserts in an Unjust Society [NR]
Suart P. Green
54 To Protect and Serve — Policing of Minorities [NR]
John Kleinig
Economic Justice
55 A Theory of Justice
John Rawls
56 The Entitlement Theory of Justice
Robert Nozick
57 Benefitting from Injustice [NW]
Daniel Butt
58 Bleeding Heart Libertarian View of Inequality [NW]
Andrew Jason Cohen
Global Justice
59 Refugees and the Right to Control Immigration [NW]
Christopher Heath Wellman
60 Case for Open Immigration [N]
Chandran Kukathas
61 Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer
62 Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code [W]
John Arthur
63 Eradicating Systemic Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend [R]
Thomas W. Pogge
War and Torture
64 Just War and Moral Consistency [NW]
Jonathan Parry (University of Birmingham)
65 Pacifism: Reclaiming the Moral Presumption [W]
William J. Hawk
66 The Justifiability of Humanitarian Intervention [R]
Charles R. Beitz
67 “Terrorism and Torture.” [N]
Fritz Alhoff
68 “Unthinking the Ticking Time Bomb” [NR]
David Luban
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