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ISBN 10: 0191068144
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Author: David Edmonds

Philosophers take on the world 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. Time to reconsider the penal code?

2. Enhanced punishment: Can technology make life sentences longer?

3. Degrees of sexual harm

No degrees of rape?

The question of sexual harm

Conclusion

Terrorism, guns, and war

4. A challenge to gun rights

5. McMahan’s hazardous (and irrelevant) thought experiment

6. Travel, friends, and killing

7. The courageous suicide bomber?

8. Chemical weapons: In defence of double standards

9. Looted artworks: A portrait of justice

Health and medicine

10. Homeopathy: An undiluted proposal

11. Five minutes too late

12. Taking drugs to help others

13. My son’s dyslexic, and I’m glad

14. The point of death

15. Is it ethical to use data from Nazi medical experiments?

Using data

A tricky conundrum

Paying our debt

16. Financial incentives, coercion, and psychosis

17. Mr Nicklinson and the right to die

Drugs and organs

18. In praise of organ-ized sport

19. Do we own our bodies?

20. Psychiatric drugs and religious norms

Religion and charity

21. Catholic identity and strong dissent—how compatible?

22. Banking: The ethical career choice

23. On rebuilding Noah’s Ark and drinking old burgundy

24. Should conservative Christians be allowed to foster children?

Sex, sex-equality, and sexuality

25. Can you be gay by choice?

The question of identity

Getting back to choice

Conclusion

26. Prostitution and disability

The case for an exception

Defining disability

Conclusion

27. Artificial wombs and a visit to Birland

28. Is unwanted pregnancy a medical disorder?

29. Is half an abortion worse than a whole one?

30. Nick-less?

31. Paedophilia and predisposition

Sexual orientation?

Predisposition and impulse control

32. Checking people out

33. Female philosophers and sexual harassment

34. An unfortunate state of affairs

Sport

35. Sport hatred

36. Doping: When will we learn?

The failure of zero tolerance

The limits of human physiology

Some counterarguments

37. Tennis and sex

Brains

38. My brain made me do it—so what?

39. My client’s brain is to blame

40. Mapping brains and finding direction

Language, speech, and freedom

41. Countering Islamic extremism

42. Disabling language

43. Stop Orientalism?

44. The naked truth

45. Porn, condoms, and liberty

Basis 1: Harm to third parties

Basis 2: Porn performers are not free to choose—they either wear condoms or lose their jobs

Basis 3: Condoms can be mandated as a standard occupational health and safety measure, like requiring hardhats for construction workers

46. Should men be allowed to discuss abortion?

Evil, disgust, shame, rudeness, and joy

47. A reflection on confronting evil

48. Shame about the internet

49. In defence of drinking alone

The view that solo drinking is bad for solo drinkers

The view that solo drinkers are bad

Bias in favour of being sociable

50. Lady Thatcher is dead: Pop open the champagne

51. Steamy calamari and trans-species eroticism

52. Nothing is like mother’s ice cream

Milk and the harm principle

Who has a right to milk?

The radical indecency of drinking milk

53. Rudeness and cold callers

Animals

54. Treated like animals

55. What is a pet worth?

56. The best idea you’ve heard all year

The future and its people

57. Enlightened surveillance?

58. Why it’s OK to block ads

59. Would you hand over a decision to a machine?

Making better decisions

In the loop

Trusting the machine

Machines we understand and that understand us

60. Should we be erasing memories?

61. Adding happy people

62. The pregnant man and other conceptual surprises

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