Modern ethics in 77 arguments
Subtitle: a Stone reader
By: edited by Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9781631492983
Subjects: Sections, columns; Modern Ethics; Newspapers; Ethics
Other titles: Stone reader :; Modern ethics in seventy-seven arguments; New York times.; Stone reader. Selections.
Description: Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments explores long-standing ethical and moral issues in light of our most urgent dilemmas. Divided into twelve sections, the book opens with a series of broad arguments on existence, human nature and morality. Indeed, "big" questions of the human condition are explored by some of our best-known and most accomplished living philosophers: What is the meaning of our existence? Should we really "do what we love"? How should we respond to evil? Is pure altruism possible?
Notes: "Selected essays previously published in the book The stone reader : modern philosophy in 133 arguments"--Title page verso.

"From the popular New York times philosophy series"--Dust jacket cover.
Table of contents: title: On existence.; title: The meaningfulness of lives  -- Todd May; title: There is no theory of everything  -- Simon Critchley; title: The light at the end of suffering  -- Peg O'Connor; title: Being there: Heidegger on why our presence matters  -- Lawrence Berger; title: Against invulnerability  -- Todd May; title: Why life is absurd  -- Rivka Weinberg; title: A life beyond "do what you love"  -- Gordon Marino; title: On human nature.; title: Evolution and our inner conflict  -- Edward O. Wilson; title: Learning how to die in the Anthropocene  -- Roy Scranton; title: Is pure altruism possible?  -- Judith Lichtenberg; title: Moral camouflage or moral monkeys?  -- Peter Railton; title: How should we respond to "evil"?  -- Steven Paulikas; title: The moral logic of survivor guilt  -- Nancy Sherman; title: How to live without irony  -- Christy Wampole; title: Deluded individualism  -- Firmin DeBrabander; title: ON MORALITY --; title: The dangers of happiness  -- Carl Cederström; title: Are we ready for a "morality pill"?  -- Peter Singer and Agata Sagan; title: Why our children don't think there are moral facts  -- Justin P. McBrayer; title: Morals without God?  -- Frans de Waal; title: The dangers of certainty : a lesson from Auschwitz  -- Simon Critchley; title: Confessions of an ex-moralist  -- Joel Marks; title: The maze of moral relativism  -- Paul Boghossian; title: Can moral disputes be resolved?  -- Alex Rosenberg; title: Moral dispute or cultural difference?  -- Carol Rovane; title: On religion.; title: Navigating past nihilism  -- Sean D. Kelly; title: Does it matter whether God exists?  -- Gary Gutting; title: Good minus God  -- Louise M. Antony; title: Pascal's wager 2.0  -- Gary Gutting; title: The sacred and the humane  -- Anat Biletzki; title: Why God is a moral issue  -- Michael Ruse; title: The rigor of love  -- Simon Critchley; title: God is a question, not an answer  -- William Irwin; title: What's wrong with blasphemy?  -- Andrew F. March; title: On government; title: Questions for free-market moralists  -- Amia Srinivasan; title: Is our patriotism moral?  -- Gary Gutting; title: The irrationality of natural life sentences  -- Jennifer Lackey; title: Spinoza's vision of freedom, and ours  -- Steven Nadler; title: If war can have ethics, Wall Street can, too  -- Nathaniel B. Davis; title: The moral hazard of drones  -- John Kaag and Sarah Kreps; title: Reasons for reason  -- Michael P. Lynch; title: On citizenship.; title: The morality of migration  -- Seyla Benhabib; title: What do we owe each other?  -- Aaron James Wendland; title: Can refugees have human rights?  -- Omri Boehm; title: Dependents of the state  -- Amia Srinivasan; title: Is voting out of self-interest wrong? -- Gary Gutting; title: On violence.; title: Philosophizing with guns  -- Simone Gubler; title: A crack in the stoic's armor  -- Nancy Sherman; title: Who needs a gun?  -- Gary Gutting; title: The freedom of an armed society  -- Firmin DeBrabander; title: Is American nonviolence possible?  -- Todd May; title: On race.; title: Walking while black in the "white gaze"  -- George Yancy; title: Race, truth and our two realities  -- Chris Lebron; title: Getting past the outrage on race  -- Gary Gutting; title: Philosophy's Western bias  -- Justin E.H. Smith; title: Dear White America  -- George Yancy; title: Of cannibals, kings and culture : the problem of ethnocentricity  -- Adam Etinson; title: What, to the black American, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day?  -- Chris Lebron; title: Is real inclusiveness possible?  -- Justin E.H. Smith; title: On women.; title: When prostitution is nobody's business  -- Laurie Shrage; title: On abortion and defining a "person"  -- Gary Gutting; title: Girlfriend, mother, professor?  -- Carol Hay; title: The disappearing women  -- Rae Langton; title: A feminist Kant  -- Carol Hay; title: On family.; title: Think before you breed  -- Christine Overall; title: Is forced fatherhood fair?  -- Laurie Shrage; title: "Mommy wars" redux : a false conflict  -- Amy Allen; title: The end of "marriage"  -- Laurie Shrage; title: My parents' mixed messages on the Holocaust  -- Jason Stanley; title: On eating.; title: The meat eaters  -- Jeff McMahan; title: If peas can talk, should we eat them?  -- Michael Marder; title: When vegans won't compromise  -- Bob Fischer and James McWilliams; title: The enigma of animal suffering  -- Rhys Southan; title: On the future.; title: Is humanity getting better?  -- Leif Wenar; title: Should this be the last generation?  -- Peter Singer; title: What do we owe the future?  -- Patricia I. Vieira and Michael Marder; title: The importance of the afterlife, seriously  -- Samuel Scheffler; title: Accepting the past, facing the future -- Todd May.