This volume collects a wealth of articles covering a range of topics of practical concern in the field of ethics, including active and passive euthanasia, abortion, organ transplants, capital punishment, the consequences of human actions, slavery, overpopulation, the separate spheres of men and women, animal rights, and game theory and the nuclear arms race. The contributors are Thomas Nagel, David Hume, James Rachels, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Michael Tooley, John Harris, John Stuart Mill, Louis Pascal, Jonathan Glover, Derek Parfit, R.M. Hare, Janet Radcliffe Richards, Peter Singer, and Nicholas Measor.
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"An impressive line-up. The book is everything it purports to be. For someone who wants a short collection of many of the seminal and influential essays in applied philosophy, one probably can't do better than this."--Teaching Philosophy
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This book is absolutly essential reading if you are considering applying for a post graduate qualification in any of the psycho-medical sciences.Whilst you could not exactly call this book 'easy reading', it is well laid out and the author has ensured that the book flows well so that it is easy to reference specific topics.
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- Practical Ethics by Peter Singer on 4 pages
- Abortion and Infanticide by Michael Tooley on 4 pages
- Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick on page 143, page 144, and page 161
- Freedom and Reason by Richard Mervyn Hare on page 220, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reasons and Persons (Oxford Paperbacks) by Derek Parfit on page 145, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy) by Jesper Ryberg on 9 pages
- A Radical Green Political Theory (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory) by Alan Carter on 6 pages
- Critical Reasoning in Ethics: A Practical Introduction by Anne Thomson on 5 pages
- Moral Theory: A Non-Consequentialist Approach by David S. Oderberg on 5 pages
- Recent Work on Intrinsic Value (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy) by Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen on 4 pages
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