The question of" life" is The Question of the 20th century. Race and poverty are dimensions
of the life question, but discussions about abortion have brought the issue into focus in a …

Hugh P. McDonald s John Dewey and Environmental Philosophy breaks new ground by
applying Dewey s insights to a new approach to philosophy of the environment; the concern …

Abstract _ _ _Unsanctifying Human Life_ offers a collection of Singer's best and most
challenging articles from 1971 to the present. The book includes early critiques of various …

Contrary to W. Murray Hunt's suggestion, living things deserve moral consideration and
inanimate objects do not precisely because living things can intelligibly be said to have …

This book conveys the breadth and interconnectedness of questions of justice--a rarity in
contemporary moral and political philosophy. James P. Sterba argues that a minimal notion …

Abstract Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, Fifth Edition, features sixty-nine
selections organized into three parts, providing instructors with great flexibility in designing …

Several recent developments in contemporary moral theory indicate that we are now in the
heyday of what Ronald Dworkin calls right-based theories-normative theories which treat …

The concern people are now expressing about the human en vironment, ecology, pollution,
and overpopulation, though ad mittedly legitimate from a moral point of view, has not …

In Search of Consistency: Ethics and Animals examines the discrepancy in applied ethics
between treatment of human life and treatment of all other life-forms. In the process, this …