Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics

Andrew I. Cohen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgia State University, USA, and Director of its Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics. His published work focuses on rights theory and political philosophy and includes co-editorship of this volume's first edition (Blackwell, 2005). Professor Cohen is currently researching issues concerning reparations and public contrition for past injustices that in many cases continue to inflame geopolitical sensibilities.Christopher Heath Wellman is Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. A specialist in the ethical aspects of political and legal philosophy, his books include the forthcoming Liberal Rights and Responsibilities: Debating the Ethics of Immigration (due for publication in 2013), and A Liberal Theory of International Justice (2009, with Andrew Altman), in addition to co-editing the first edition of this work.

• Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Andrew I. Cohen and Christopher Heath WellmanEthical Theory 111 Theories of Ethics Stephen L. Darwall 13Issues in Life and Death 33Abortion 352 The Wrong of Abortion 37Patrick Lee and Robert P. George3 The Moral Permissibility of Abortion 51Margaret Olivia LittleEuthanasia 634 In Defense of Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide 65Michael Tooley5 A Case Against Euthanasia 82Daniel CallahanAnimals 936 Empty Cages: Animal Rights and Vivisection 95Tom Regan7 Animals and Their Medical Use 109R.G. FreyIssues in Justice 121Affirmative action 1238 A Defense of Affirmative Action 125Albert Mosley9 Preferential Policies Have Become Toxic 141Celia Wolf-DevineCapital punishment 15710 A Defense of the Death Penalty 159Louis P. Pojman11 Why We Should Put the Death Penalty to Rest 175Stephen NathansonReparations 18912 Compensation and Past Injustice 191Bernard Boxill13 Must We Provide Material Redress for Past Wrongs? 203Nahshon PerezProfi ling 21714 Bayesian Inference and Contractualist Justification on Interstate 95Arthur Isak Applbaum 21915 Racial Profiling and the Meaning of Racial Categories 232Deborah HellmanTorture 24516 Ticking Time-Bombs and Torture 247Fritz Allhoff17 Torture and its Apologists 260Bob BrecherIssues of Privacy and The Good 273Same-sex marriage 27518 Same-Sex Marriage and the Definitional Objection 277John Corvino19 Making Sense of Marriage 290Sherif GirgisPornography 30520 The Right to Get Turned On: Pornography, Autonomy, Equality307Andrew Altman21 “The Price We Pay”? Pornography and Harm 319Susan J. BrisonDrugs 33322 In Favor of Drug Decriminalization 335Douglas Husak23 Against the Legalization of Drugs 346Peter de MarneffeIssues of Cosmopolitanism and Community 359Immigration 36124 Immigration: The Case for Limits 363David Miller25 The Case for Open Immigration 376Chandran KukathasHumanitarian intervention 38926 The Moral Structure of Humanitarian Intervention 391Fernando R. Tesón27 The Morality of Humanitarian Intervention 404Bas van der VossenWorld hunger 41728 Famine Relief: The Duties We Have to Others 419Christopher Heath Wellman29 Famine Relief and Human Virtue 431Andrew I. CohenIndex 447