Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics

[*new to second edition] Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath Wellman 1 ETHICAL THEORY 11 1 *Theories of Ethics Stephen L. Darwall 13 ISSUES IN LIFE AND DEATH 33 Abortion 35 2 The Wrong of Abortion Patrick Lee and Robert P. George 37 3 The Moral Permissibility of Abortion Margaret Olivia Little 51 Euthanasia 63 4 In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Michael Tooley 65 5 A Case Against Euthanasia Daniel Callahan 82 Animals 93 6 Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection Tom Regan 95 7 Animals and Their Medical Use R.G. Frey 109 ISSUES IN JUSTICE 121 Affi rmative action 123 8 A Defense of Affi rmative Action Albert Mosley 125 9 Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic Celia Wolf-Devine 141 Capital punishment 157 10 A Defense of the Death Penalty Louis P. Pojman 159 11 Why We Should Put the Death Penalty to Rest Stephen Nathanson 175 Reparations 189 12 *Compensation and Past Injustice Bernard Boxill 191 13 *Must We Provide Material Redress for Past Wrongs? Nahshon Perez 203 Profi ling 217 14 *Bayesian Inference and Contractualist Justifi cation on Interstate 95 Arthur Isak Applbaum 219 15 *Racial Profi ling and the Meaning of Racial Categories Deborah Hellman 232 Torture 245 16 *Ticking Time-Bombs and Torture Fritz Allhoff 247 17 *Torture and its Apologists Bob Brecher 260 ISSUES OF PRIVACY AND THE GOOD 273 Same-sex marriage 275 18 *Same-Sex Marriage and the Defi nitional Objection John Corvino 277 19 *Making Sense of Marriage Sherif Girgis 290 Pornography 305 20 The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality Andrew Altman 307 21 "The Price We Pay"? Pornography and Harm Susan J. Brison 319 Drugs 333 22 *In Favor of Drug Decriminalization Douglas Husak 335 23 *Against the Legalization of Drugs Peter de Marneffe 346 ISSUES OF COSMOPOLITANISM AND COMMUNITY 359 Immigration 361 24 Immigration: The Case for Limits David Miller 363 25 The Case for Open Immigration Chandran Kukathas 376 Humanitarian intervention 389 26 *The Moral Structure of Humanitarian Intervention Fernando R. Tesón 391 27 *The Morality of Humanitarian Intervention Bas van der Vossen 404 World hunger 417 28 Famine Relief: The Duties We Have to Others Christopher Heath Wellman 419 29 Famine Relief and Human Virtue Andrew I. Cohen 431 Index 447