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This book brings together a large and diverse collection of
philosophical papers addressing a wide variety of public policy
issues. Topics covered range from long-standing subjects of debate
such as abortion, punishment, and freedom of expression, to more
recent controversies such as those over gene editing, military
drones, and statues honoring Confederate soldiers. Part I focuses
on the criminal justice system, including issues that arise before,
during, and after criminal trials. Part II covers matters of
national defense and sovereignty, including chapters on military
ethics, terrorism, and immigration. Part III, which explores
political participation, manipulation, and standing, includes
discussions of issues involving voting rights, the use of nudges,
and claims of equal status. Part IV covers a variety of issues
involving freedom of speech and expression. Part V deals with
questions of justice and inequality. Part VI considers topics
involving bioethics and biotechnology. Part VII is devoted to
beginning of life issues, such as cloning and surrogacy, and end of
life issues, such as assisted suicide and organ procurement. Part
VIII navigates emerging environmental issues, including treatments
of the urban environment and extraterrestrial environments.
This book brings together a large and diverse collection of
philosophical papers addressing a wide variety of public policy
issues. Topics covered range from long-standing subjects of debate
such as abortion, punishment, and freedom of expression, to more
recent controversies such as those over gene editing, military
drones, and statues honoring Confederate soldiers. Part I focuses
on the criminal justice system, including issues that arise before,
during, and after criminal trials. Part II covers matters of
national defense and sovereignty, including chapters on military
ethics, terrorism, and immigration. Part III, which explores
political participation, manipulation, and standing, includes
discussions of issues involving voting rights, the use of nudges,
and claims of equal status. Part IV covers a variety of issues
involving freedom of speech and expression. Part V deals with
questions of justice and inequality. Part VI considers topics
involving bioethics and biotechnology. Part VII is devoted to
beginning of life issues, such as cloning and surrogacy, and end of
life issues, such as assisted suicide and organ procurement. Part
VIII navigates emerging environmental issues, including treatments
of the urban environment and extraterrestrial environments.
The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics is a comprehensive
collection of recent research on the ethics of sexual behavior,
representing a wide range of perspectives. It addresses a number of
traditional subjects in the area, including questions about
pre-marital, extra-marital, non-heterosexual, and non-procreative
sex, and about the nature and significance of sexual consent,
sexual desire, and sexual activity, as well as a variety of more
recent topics, including sexual racism, sexual ableism, sex robots,
and the #metoo response to sexual harassment. Each chapter defends
a substantive thesis about the topic it addresses and the handbook
as a whole thereby provides a strong foundation for future research
in this important and growing field of inquiry.
In this book, David Boonin examines the problem of punishment, and
particularly the problem of explaining why it is morally
permissible for the state to treat those who break the law in ways
that would be wrong to treat those who do not. Boonin argues that
there is no satisfactory solution to this problem and that the
practice of legal punishment should therefore be abolished.
Providing a detailed account of the nature of punishment and the
problems that it generates, he offers a comprehensive and critical
survey of the various solutions that have been offered to the
problem and concludes by considering victim restitution as an
alternative to punishment. Written in a clear and accessible style,
The Problem of Punishment will be of interest to anyone looking for
a critical introduction to the subject as well as to those already
familiar with it.
The central thesis of philosopher David Boonin is that the moral case against abortion can be shown to be unsuccessful on terms that critics of abortion can and do accept. Critically examining a wide array of arguments that have attempted to establish that every human fetus has a right to life, Boonin posits that all of these arguments fail on their own terms. He then argues that even if the fetus does have a right to life, abortion can still be shown to be morally permissible on the critic of abortion's own terms. Finally, Boonin considers a number of arguments against abortion that do not depend on the claim that the fetus has a right to life, including those based on the golden rule, considerations of uncertainty and a commitment to certain feminist principles, and asserts that these positions, too, are ultimately unsuccessful. The result is the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion that has yet been written. David Boonin is professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of Thomas Hobbes and the Science of Moral Virtue (Cambridge, 1994).
In this book, philosopher David Boonin attempts to answer the moral
questions raised by five important and widely contested racial
practices: slave reparations, affirmative action, hate speech
restrictions, hate crime laws, and racial profiling. Arguing from
premises that virtually everyone on both sides of the debates over
these issues already accepts, Boonin arrives at an unusual and
unorthodox set of conclusions, one that is neither liberal nor
conservative, color conscious nor color blind. Defended with the
rigor that has characterized his previous work but written in a
more widely accessible style, this provocative and important new
book is sure to spark controversy and should be of interest to
philosophers, legal theorists, and anyone interested in trying to
resolve the debate over these important and divisive issues.
In this book, philosopher David Boonin attempts to answer the moral
questions raised by five important and widely contested racial
practices: slave reparations, affirmative action, hate speech
restrictions, hate crime laws, and racial profiling. Arguing from
premises that virtually everyone on both sides of the debates over
these issues already accepts, Boonin arrives at an unusual and
unorthodox set of conclusions, one that is neither liberal nor
conservative, color conscious nor color blind. Defended with the
rigor that has characterized his previous work but written in a
more widely accessible style, this provocative and important new
book is sure to spark controversy and should be of interest to
philosophers, legal theorists, and anyone interested in trying to
resolve the debate over these important and divisive issues.
In this book, David Boonin examines the problem of punishment, and
particularly the problem of explaining why it is morally
permissible for the state to treat those who break the law in ways
that would be wrong to treat those who do not. Boonin argues that
there is no satisfactory solution to this problem and that the
practice of legal punishment should therefore be abolished.
Providing a detailed account of the nature of punishment and the
problems that it generates, he offers a comprehensive and critical
survey of the various solutions that have been offered to the
problem and concludes by considering victim restitution as an
alternative to punishment. Written in a clear and accessible style,
The Problem of Punishment will be of interest to anyone looking for
a critical introduction to the subject as well as to those already
familiar with it.
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