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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Singer |
| ISBN: | 0198750676 9780198750673 0198750854 9780198750857 |
| OCLC Number: | 13820779 |
| Description: | vi, 264 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Death / Thomas Nagel -- Of suicide / David Hume -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- A defence of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley -- The survival lottery / John Harris -- Speech in favour of capital punishment (1868) / John Stuart Mill -- Judgement day / Louis Pascal -- 'It makes no difference whether or not I do it' / Jonathan Glover -- Overpopulation and the quality of life / Derek Parfit -- What is wrong with slavery? / R.M. Hare -- Separate spheres / Janet Radcliffe Richards -- All animals are equal / Peter Singer -- Games theory and the nuclear arms race / Nicholas Measor. |
| Series Title: | Oxford readings in philosophy. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Peter Singer. |
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Abstract:
This volume collects articles covering a range of topics of practical concern in the field of ethics, including active and passive euthanasia, abortion, organ transplants, capital punishment, the consequences of human actions, slavery, overpopulation, the separate spheres of men and women, animal rights, and game theory and the nuclear arms race.
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