What's wrong? : applied ethicists and their critics

What's Wrong?: Applied Ethicists and Their Critics is a thorough and engaging introduction to applied ethics that covers virtually all of the issues in the field. Featuring more than ninety-five articles, it addresses standard topics--such as abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, world hunger, and animal rights--and also delves into cutting-edge areas like cloning, racial profiling, same-sex marriage, prostitution, and slave reparations. The volume includes seminal essays by prominent philosophers (Robert Nozick, James Rachels, Peter Singer, and Judith Jarvis Thomson) alongside work by newer voices in the field. Employing a unique approach to teaching argumentation, editors David Boonin and Graham Oddie unify the wealth of material presented in this collection. Each chapter opens with a featured article that takes a strong stand on a particular issue; the essays that immediately follow offer objections and critical responses to the arguments put forth in the featured selection. This format helps students learn how to better engage in debates because it illustrates how philosophers argue with each other. In addition, a general introduction describes strategies for understanding and evaluating the different types of arguments contained in the readings, while detailed chapter introductions enable students to see precisely how the arguments presented in the various writings are related to one another. Discussion questions and suggestions for further reading are included for each chapter. Ideal for courses in introduction to ethics and applied ethics/contemporary moral problems, What's Wrong? can also be used in critical thinking courses that emphasize philosophical argumentation.

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: What's Wrong with Arguing?
• Part 1 What's Wrong With Killing?
• 1 Is Killing in War Wrong?
• Fullinwider and His Critics
• ""War and Innocence"" Robert K. Fullinwider
• Critics
• ""Self-Defense and the Killing of Noncombatants: A Reply to Fullinwider"" Lawrence A. Alexander
• 2 Is Euthanasia Wrong?
• Rachels and His Critics
• ""Active and Passive Euthanasia"" James Rachels
• Critics
• ""Is Killing No Worse Than Letting Die?"" Winston Nesbitt
• ""Killing, Letting Die, and the Bare Difference Argument"" Roy W. Perrett
• ""The Additive Fallacy"" Shelly Kagan
• ""Killing and Letting Die: From Bare Differences to Clear Differences"" Graham Oddie
• 3 Is Abortion Wrong?
• Marquis and His Critics
• ""Why Abortion Is Immoral"" Don Marquis
• Critics
• ""Abortion and the Neo-Natal Right to Life: A Critique of Marquis's Futurist Argument"" Gerald H. Paske
• ""Killing, Abortion, and Contraception: A Reply to Marquis"" Alastair Norcross
• ""Does a Fetus Already Have a Future-Like-Ours?"" Peter K. McInerney
• Thomson and Her Critics
• ""A Defense of Abortion"" Judith Jarvis Thomson
• Critics
• ""Thomson on Abortion"" Baruch Brody
• ""Arguments from Bodily Rights: A Critical Analysis"" Francis J. Beckwith
• Is Infanticide Wrong?
• Tooley and His Critics
• ""Abortion and Infanticide"" Michael Tooley
• Critics
• ""Infanticide and the Right to Life"" Alan Carter
• ""Must the Bearer of a Right Have the Concept of That to Which He Has a Right?"" John C. Stevens
• 5 Is Killing Nonhuman Animals Wrong?
• Regan and His Critics
• ""The Case for Animal Rights"" Tom Regan
• Critics
• ""On a Case for Animal Rights"" Jan Narveson
• ""Why Animals Lack Beliefs and Desires"" R.G. Frey
• ""The Case Against Animal Rights"" R.G. Frey
• ""Rights"" Alan White
• Part 2 What's Wrong With Sex?
• 6 Is Homosexuality Wrong?
• Levin and His Critics
• ""Why Homosexuality Is Abnormal"" Michael Levin
• Critics
• ""Homosexuality and Nature: Happiness and the Law at Stake"" Timothy F. Murphy
• 7 Is ""Outing"" Homosexuals Wrong?
• Mohr and His Critics
• ""The Case for Outing"" Richard D. Mohr
• Critics
• ""Outing, Ethics, and Politics: A Reply to Mohr"" James S. Stramel
• ""Privacy and the Ethics of Outing"" David J. Mayo and Martin Gunderson
• 8 Is Adultery Wrong?
• Wasserstrom and His Critics
• ""Is Adultery Immoral?"" Richard Wasserstrom
• Critics
• ""What's Really Wrong with Adultery"" Michael J. Wreen
• ""Adultery"" Bonnie Steinbock
• ""What's Wrong with Adultery?"" Don Marquis
• 9 Is Antioch's ""Sexual Offense Policy"" Wrong?
• Soble and His Critics
• ""Antioch's 'Sexual Offense Policy': A Philosophical Exploration"" Alan Soble
• Critics
• ""AH! My Foolish Heart: A Reply to Soble's 'Antioch's ""Sexual Offense Policy"": A Philosophical Exploration'"" Eva Feder Kittay
• 10 Is Prostitution Wrong?
• Ericsson and His Critics
• ""Charges Against Prostitution: An Attempt at a Philosophical Assessment"" Lars O. Ericsson
• Critics
• ""Defending Prostitution: Charges Against Ericsson"" Carole Pateman
• ""Should Feminists Oppose Prostitution?"" Laurie Shrage
• ""Prostitution, Exploitation, and Taboo"" Karen Green
• Part 3 What's Wrong With The Family?
• 11 Is Neglecting One's Parents Wrong?
• English and Her Critics
• ""What Do Grown Children Owe Their Parents?"" Jane English
• Critics
• ""Can Parents and Children Be Friends?"" Joseph Kupfer
• ""The Friendship Model of Filial Obligations"" Nicholas Dixon
• 12 Is the Traditional Family Wrong?
• Sommers and Her Critics
• Christina Hoff Sommers, ""Philosophers Against the Family""
• Critics
• ""'They Lived Happily Ever After': Sommers on Women and Marriage"" Marilyn Friedman
• ""The Ties That Bind: Duties to Family Members"" Claudia Mills
• 13 Is Licensing Parents Wrong?
• LaFollette and His Critics
• ""Licensing Parents"" Hugh LaFollette
• Critics
• ""On Licentious Licensing: A Reply to Hugh LaFollette"" Lawrence E. Frisch
• ""Parent Licensing"" Pierre Lemieux
• 14 Is Same-Sex Marriage Wrong?
• Jordan and His Critics
• ""Is It Wrong to Discriminate on the Basis of Homosexuality?"" Jeff Jordan
• Critics
• ""Same-Sex Marriage and the Argument from Public Disagreement"" David Boonin
• ""Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality"" Andrew Sullivan
• Part 4 What's Wrong With Race Relations?
• 15 Is Affirmative Action Wrong?
• Thomson and Her Critics
• ""Preferential Hiring"" Judith Jarvis Thomson
• Critics
• ""Preferential Hiring: A Reply to Judith Jarvis Thomson"" Robert Simon
• 16 Are Reparations for Slavery Wrong?
• Horowitz and His Critics
• ""Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks Is a Bad Idea for Blacks--and Racist, Too!"" David Horowitz
• Critics
• ""Ten Reasons: A Response to David Horowitz"" Robert Chrisman and Ernest Allen
• ""America's Debt to Blacks"" Randall Robinson
• 17 Is a White Musician Playing the Blues Wrong?
• Rudinow and His Critics
• ""Race, Ethnicity, Expressive Authenticity: Can White People Sing the Blues?"" Joel Rudinow
• Critics
• So Black and Blue: Response to Rudinow"" Paul Taylor
• ""Reply to Taylor"" Joel Rudinow
• 18 Is Racial Profiling Wrong?
• Levin and His Critics
• ""Responses to Race Differences in Crime"" Michael Levin
• Critics
• ""On Michael Levin's 'Responses to Race Differences in Crime'"" Chana Berniker Cox
• ""Statistical Badness"" Laurence Thomas
• ""Race and Crime: A Response to Michael Levin and Laurence Thomas"" Louis P. Pojman
• Part 5 What's Wrong With Commerce?
• 19 Is Failing to Divest from Immoral Companies Wrong?
• Cahn and His Critics
• ""A Puzzle Concerning Divestiture"" Steven M. Cahn
• Critics
• ""The Divestiture Puzzle Dissolved"" Roger A. Shiner
• ""Morally Acceptable Divestiture"" Kerry S. Walters
• ""The Point in Principled Divestiture"" Saul Smilansky
• 20 Is Insider Trading Wrong?
• Werhane and Her Critics
• ""The Ethics of Insider Trading"" Patricia H. Werhane
• Critics
• ""Insider Trading Revisited"" Deryl W. Martin and Jeffrey H. Peterson
• 21 Is Marketing Human Organs Wrong?
• Chadwick and Her Critics
• ""The Market for Bodily Parts: Kant and Duties to Oneself"" Ruth F. Chadwick
• Critics
• ""The Market for Bodily Parts: A Response to Ruth Chadwick"" G.V. Tadd
• ""The Morality of a Free Market for Transplant Organs"" Mark T. Nelson
• 22 Is Commercial Surrogate Motherhood Wrong?
• Anderson and Her Critics
• ""Is Women's Labor a Commodity?"" Elizabeth S. Anderson
• Critics
• ""Commodification and Commercial Surrogacy"" Richard J. Arneson
• ""Two Questions About Surrogacy and Exploitation"" Alan Wertheimer
• 23 Is Failing to Contribute to Famine Relief Wrong?
• Singer and His Critics
• ""Famine, Affluence, and Morality"" Peter Singer
• Critics
• ""World Hunger and Moral Obligation: The Case Against Singer"" John Arthur
• ""Famine, Affluence, and Empathy"" Michael Slote
• Part 6 What's Wrong With The State?
• 24 Is Redistributive Taxation Wrong?
• Nozick and His Critics
• ""Distributive Justice"" Robert Nozick
• Critics
• ""The Entitlement Theory of Distributive Justice"" Alan H. Goodman
• ""Redistributive Taxation, Self-Ownership, and the Fruit of Labour"" Mark A. Michael
• 25 Is Capital Punishment Wrong?
• van den Haag and His Critics
• ""Refuting Reiman and Nathanson"" Ernest van den Haag
• Critics
• ""Justice, Civilization, and the Death Penalty: Answering van den Haag"" Jeffrey H. Reiman
• ""Does It Matter If the Death Penalty is Arbitrarily Administered?"" Stephen Nathanson
• 26 Is All Punishment Wrong?
• Barnett and His Critics
• ""Restitution: A New Paradigm of Criminal Justice"" Randy E. Barnett
• Critics
• ""Restitution and Punishment: A Reply to Barnett"" Franklin G. Miller
• ""Criminal Remedies: Restitution, Punishment, or Both?"" Roger Pilon
• ""Criminal Justice and Private Enterprise"" Stanley S. Kleinberg
• 27 Is a Government Ban on Tobacco Wrong?
• Goodin and His Critics
• Robert Goodin, ""No Smoking""
• Critics
• ""Smoking Tobacco: Irrationality, Addiction, and Paternalism"" Daniel Shapiro
• ""Addiction and the Value of Freedom"" Graham Oddie
• 28 Is a Government Ban on Cloning Wrong?
• Kass and His Critics
• ""Preventing a Brave New World"" Leon R. Kass
• Critics
• ""Uniqueness, Individuality, and Human Cloning"" David Elliott
• ""An Argument for Limited Human Cloning"" David B. Hershenov
• Part 7 What Else Is Wrong?
• 29 Is Inheriting Wealth Wrong?
• ""Is Inheritance Justified?"" D.W. Haslett
• 30 Is Criminalizing Blackmail Wrong?
• ""The Crime of Blackmail: A Libertarian Critique"" Walter Block
• 31 Is Punishing People for Bad Luck Wrong?
• 32 Is Refusing to Work Wrong?
• ""The Obligation to Work"" Lawrence C. Becker
• 33 Is Copying This Book Wrong?
• ""In Defense of Copying"" Selmer Bringsjord