Philosophy and Its Public Role: Essays in Ethics, Politics, Society and Culture

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William Aiken, John Haldane
Imprint Academic, 2004 - 272 стор.

This brings together moral, social and political philosophers from Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States who explore a wide range of issues under the three headings of Philosophy, Society and Culture; Ethics, Economics and Justice; and Rights, Law and Punishment. The topics discussed range from the public responsibility of intellectuals to the justice of military tribunals, and from posthumous reproduction to the death penalty.

 

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John Haldane American Philosophy and its Public Role
11
Bob Brecher Do Intellectuals have a Special Public
25
John Arthur Impartial Public Reason and its Critics
39
David Carr Audens Great Healers
53
Terence McLaughlin Philosophy Values and Schooling
69
Wendy Donner Is Cultural Membership a Good?
84
Andrew Moore Postmortem Reproduction Consent
105
Geoffrey Cupit Three Ways to Value Equality
122
Richard Brook Statistical and Identifiable Deaths
167
Constitutional and International
181
Procedural Justice
197
Anthony Ellis A Deterrence Theory of Punishment
210
Jonathan Jacobs Retributivism and Public Norms
227
Daniel Farrell Capital Punishment and Societal SelfDefence
241
References
257
Index
269

Bart Gruzalski Mitigating the Consumption of
135
James Child Globalization Technology and the New Economy
149

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John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy, Head of the School of Philosophical and Anthropological Studies at the University of St. Andrews, and Fellow of the royal Society of Arts. He is an editor of the International Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge).

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