William Aiken and John Haldane, Editors

This collection brings together moral, social and political philosophers from Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States who explore a wide range of issues under the three headings of Philosophy, Society and Culture; Ethics, Economics and Justice; and Rights, Law and Punishment. The topics discussed range from the public responsibility of intellectuals to the justice of military tribunals, and from posthumous reproduction to the death penalty.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Philosophy, Society and Culture

• John Haldane, American Philosophy and its Public Role
• Bob Brecher, Do Intellectuals have a Special Public Responsibility?
• John Arthur, Impartial Public Reason and its Critics
• David Carr, Human Nature, Society and Education
• Terence McLaughlin, Philosophy, Values and Schooling
• Wendy Donner, Is Cultural Membership a Good? Ethics, Economics and Justice
• Andrew Moore, Consent, Dissent and Posthumous Reproduction
• Geoffrey Cupit, Three Ways to Value Equality
• Bart Gruzalski, Mitigating our Consumption of our Living Standard
• James Child, Globalisation, Technology and the New Economy
• Richard Brook, Statistical and Identifiable Deaths Justice, Law and Punishment
• Rex Martin, Human Rights: Constitutional and International
• Lisa Portmess, Military Tribunals: Procedural Justice and Evidence
• Anthony Ellis, A Deterrence Theory of Punishment
• Jonathan Jacobs, Retributivism and Public Norms
• Daniel Farrell, Capital Punishment and Societal Self-Defence References
  Index
  

· ISBN 1-84540-003-8 · Published October 2004 by Imprint Academic · Paperback · 272 pages · $29.90 ·

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