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E-book: Philosophers Take On the World

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Edited by (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford)
  • Format: 200 pages
  • Pub. Date: 15-Sep-2016
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780191068133
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  • Format: 200 pages
  • Pub. Date: 15-Sep-2016
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9780191068133

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Every day the news shows us provoking stories about what's going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and problems. In Philosophers Take On the World a team of philosophers get to grips with a variety of these controversial issues, from the amusing to the shocking, in short, engaging, often controversial pieces. Covering topics from guns to abortion, the morality of drinking alone, hating a sports team, and being rude to cold callers, the essays will make you think again about the judgments we make on a daily basis and the ways in which we choose to conduct our lives.

Philosophers Take On the World is based on the blog run by the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, one of the world's leading centres for applied ethics.

Reviews

Philosophers Take on the World paves the way for people to become independent thinkers, more mindful of the philosophical implications that lurk behind all corners of our lives. * Anna Zanetti, The Oxford Culture Review * I'm now a convert. * Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald *

Crime and punishment
1 Time to reconsider the penal code?
3(3)
Anders Herlitz
2 Enhanced punishment: can technology make life sentences longer?
6(4)
Rebecca Roache
3 Degrees of sexual harm
10(7)
Brian D. Earp
Terrorism, guns, and war
4 A challenge to gun rights
17(4)
Jeff McMahan
5 McMahan's hazardous (and irrelevant) thought experiment
21(4)
Allen Buchanan
Lance K. Stell
6 Travel, friends, and killing
25(3)
Seth Lazar
7 The courageous suicide bomber?
28(3)
Roger Crisp
8 Chemical weapons: in defence of double standards
31(3)
Owen Schaefer
9 Looted artworks: a portrait of justice
34(5)
Cecile Fabre
Health and medicine
10 Homeopathy: an undiluted proposal
39(3)
Steve Clarke
11 Five minutes too late
42(3)
Lachlan de Crespigny
Julian Savulescu
12 Taking drugs to help others
45(3)
Tom Douglas
13 My son's dyslexic, and I'm glad
48(3)
Charles Foster
14 The point of death
51(4)
Janet Radcliffe Richards
15 Is it ethical to use data from Nazi medical experiments?
55(3)
Lynn Gillam
16 Financial incentives, coercion, and psychosis
58(3)
Jonathan Pugh
17 Mr Nicklinson and the right to die
61(6)
Julian Savulescu
Drugs and organs
18 In praise of organized sport
67(3)
Dominic Wilkinson
19 Do we own our bodies?
70(3)
Janet Radcliffe Richards
20 Psychiatric drugs and religious norms
73(6)
Katrien Devolder
Religion and charity
21 Catholic identity and strong dissent-how compatible?
79(5)
Tony Coady
22 Banking: the ethical career choice
84(3)
William MacAskill
23 On rebuilding Noah's Ark and drinking old burgundy
87(2)
Charles Foster
24 Should conservative Christians be allowed to foster children?
89(6)
Simon Rippon
Sex, sex-equality, and sexuality
25 Can you be gay by choice?
95(4)
Brian D. Earp
26 Prostitution and disability
99(5)
Brian D. Earp
27 Artificial wombs and a visit to Birland
104(3)
Chris Gyngell
28 Is unwanted pregnancy a medical disorder?
107(4)
Rebecca Roache
29 Is half an abortion worse than a whole one?
111(4)
Simon Rippon
30 Nick-less?
115(3)
Dominic Wilkinson
31 Paedophilia and predisposition
118(4)
Kyle T. Edwards
32 Checking people out
122(3)
Ole Martin Moen
33 Female philosophers and sexual harassment
125(2)
David Edmonds
34 An unfortunate state of affairs
127(6)
Hilary Greaves
Sport
35 Sport hatred
133(5)
Joshua Shepherd
36 Doping: when will we learn?
138(5)
Julian Savulescu
37 Tennis and sex
143(4)
David Edmonds
Brains
38 My brain made me do it-so what?
147(3)
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
39 My client's brain is to blame
150(3)
Simon Rippon
40 Mapping brains and finding direction
153(4)
Regina Rini
Language, speech, and freedom
41 Countering Islamic extremism
157(3)
Peter Singer
42 Disabling language
160(4)
Neil Levy
43 Stop Orientalism?
164(4)
Kei Hiruta
44 The naked truth
168(2)
Roger Crisp
45 Porn, condoms, and liberty
170(5)
Kyle T. Edwards
46 Should men be allowed to discuss abortion?
175(6)
Jim A.C. Everett
Evil, disgust, shame, rudeness, and joy
47 A reflection on confronting evil
181(3)
Regina Rini
48 Shame about the internet
184(3)
Andreas Kappes
49 In defence of drinking alone
187(4)
Hannah Maslen
Rebecca Roache
50 Lady Thatcher is dead: pop open the champagne
191(2)
David Edmonds
51 Steamy calamari and trans-species eroticism
193(3)
Anders Sandberg
52 Nothing is like mother's ice cream
196(4)
Anders Sandberg
53 Rudeness and cold callers
200(7)
Hannah Maslen
Animals
54 Treated like animals
207(3)
Christine M. Korsgaard
55 What is a pet worth?
210(4)
Russell Powell
56 The best idea you've heard all year
214(5)
Michelle Hutchinson
The future and its people
57 Enlightened surveillance?
219(4)
Stuart Armstrong
58 Why it's Ok to block ads
223(4)
James Williams
59 Would you hand over a decision to a machine?
227(5)
Sean O hEigeartaigh
60 Should we be erasing memories?
232(4)
S. Matthew Liao
Anders Sandberg
Julian Savulescu
61 Adding happy people
236(4)
Theron Pummer
62 The pregnant man and other conceptual surprises
240(5)
Guy Kahane
Notes on contributors 245
David Edmonds is a Senior Research Associate at Oxford's Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is also an award winning documentary maker for BBC radio. He is the author, co-author, or editor, of 10 books which have been translated into 25 languages. They include, with John Eidinow, the international bestseller Wittgenstein's Poker. His latest book, Would You Kill The Fat Man was picked as Editor's Choice in the New York Times. With Nigel Warburton he co-runs Philosophy Bites (www.philosophybites.com ), the popular philosophy podcast which has had over 28 million downloads.