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Philosophers Take On the World

Edited by David Edmonds

Philosophers get to grips with what's going on in the world
Short, bite-sized chapters on fascinating and unusual topics
A kaleidoscope of thought-provoking and challenging new ideas
Written by a team of experts in ethics, medicine, politics, and current affairs

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Published: 01 November 2016

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Crime and Punishment
1. Time to Reconsider the Penal Code?, Anders Herlitz
2. Enhanced Punishment, Rebecca Roache
3. Degrees of Sexual Harm, Brian D. Earp
Terrorism, Guns and War
4. A Challenge to Gun Rights, Jeff McMahan
5. McMahan s Hazardous (and Irrelevant) Thought Experiment, Allen Buchanan, Lance K. Stell
6. Travel, Friends and Killing, Seth Lazar
7. The Courageous Suicide Bomber?, Roger Crisp
8. Chemical Weapons: In Defense of Double Standards, Owen Schaefer
9. Looted Artworks; A Portrait of Justice, Cecile Fabre
Heath and Medicine
10. Homeopathy - An Undiluted Proposal, Steve Clarke
11. Five Minutes Too Late, Lachlan de Crespigny and Julian Savulescu
12. Taking Drugs to Help Others, Tom Douglas
13. My Son s Dyslexic And I m Glad, Charles Foster
14. The Point of Death, Janet Radcliffe Richards
15. Is it Ethical to use Data from Nazi Medical Experiments?, Lynn Gillam
16. Financial Incentives, Coercion and Psychosis, Jonathan Pugh
17. Mr Nicklinson and the Right To Die, Julian Savulescu
Drugs and Organs
18. In Praise of Organ-ised sport, Dominic Wilkinson
19. Do We Own Our Bodies?, Janet Radcliffe Richards
20. Drugs to enforce Religious Norms, Katrien Devolder
Religion and Charity
21. Catholic Identity and Strong Dissent How Compatible, Tony Coady
22. Banking: The Ethical Career Choice?, William MacAskill
23. On Rebuilding Noah s Ark and Drinking Old Burgundy, Charles Foster
24. Should Conservative Christians be Allowed to Foster Children?, Simon Rippon
Sex, Sex-equality and Sexuality
25. Can You Be Gay By Choice?, Brian D. Earp
26. Prostitution and Disability, Brian D. Earp
27. Artificial Wombs, Chris Gyngell
28. Is Unwanted Pregnancy A Medical Condition, Rebecca Roache
29. Half An Abortion, Simon Rippon
30. Nick-less?, Dominic Wilkinson
31. Paedophilia and Preventive Imprisonment, Kyle T. Edwards
32. Checking People Out, Ole Martin Moen
33. Female Philosophers and Sexual Harassment, David Edmonds
34. An Unfortunate State of Affairs, Hilary Greaves
Sport
35. The Morality of Sport Hatred, Joshua Shepherd
36. Doping: When Will We Learn?, Julian Savulescu
37. Tennis and Sex, David Edmonds
Brains
38. My Brain Made Me Do It, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
39. My Client s Brain is to Blame, Simon Rippon
40. Maps and Brains, Regina Rini
Language, Speech and Freedom
41. Naming Islam, Peter Singer
42. Disabling Language, Neil Levy
43. Kimono Today, Kei Hiruhita
44. The Naked Truth, Roger Crisp
45. Porn, Condoms and Liberty, Kyle T. Edwards
46. Should Men Be Allowed to Discuss Abortion?, Jim Everett
Evil, Disgust, Shame, Rudeness and Joy
47. A Reflection on Confronting Evil, Regina Rini
48. Shame about the Internet, Andreas Kappes
49. Drinking Solo, Rebecca Roache and Hannah Maslen
50. Lady Thatcher is Dead: Pop Open The Champagne, David Edmonds
51. A Steamy Calamari and Trans-species Eroticism, Anders Sandberg
52. Nothing is like Mother s Ice Cream, Anders Sandberg
53. Rudeness and Cold Callers, Hannah Maslen
Animals
54. Treated Like Animals, Christine Korsgaard
55. Are Pets Property?, Russell Powell
56. Artificial Meat The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread!, Michelle Hutchinson
The Future and its People
57. Enlightened Surveillance, Stuart Armstrong
58. Why It s OK to Block Ads, James Williams
59. Would You Hand Over A Decision To Machines?, Sean O hEigeartaigh
60. Erasing Memories, Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, Julian Savulescu
61. Adding Happy People, Theron Plummer
62. The Pregnant Man, Guy Kahane

Philosophers Take On the World

Edited by David Edmonds

Author Information

David Edmonds, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford

David Edmonds is a Senior Research Associate at Oxford's Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is also an award winning documentary maker for BBC radio. He is the author, co-author, or editor, of 10 books which have been translated into 25 languages. They include, with John Eidinow, the international bestseller Wittgenstein's Poker. His latest book, Would You Kill The Fat Man was picked as Editor's Choice in the New York Times. With Nigel Warburton he co-runs Philosophy Bites (www.philosophybites.com ), the popular philosophy podcast which has had over 28 million downloads.

Contributors:

Stuart Armstrong, The Future of Humanity Institute
Allen Buchanan, Duke University and King's College
Steve Clarke, Charles Sturt University, Australia and Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Tony Coady, University of Melbourne
Lachlan de Crespigny, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Australia
Roger Crisp, St Anne's College, Oxford
Katrien Devolder, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Wolfson College, Oxford
Tom Douglas, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Brasenose College, Oxford
Brian D. Earp, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
David Edmonds, BBC journalist
Kyle T. Edwards, Yale Law School
Cecile Fabre, All Souls College, Oxford
Charles Foster, Green Templeton College, Oxford and Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Lynn Gillam, Royal Children's Hospital and the University of Melbourne
Hilary Greaves, University of Oxford
Chris Gyngell, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Anders Herlitz, Rutgers University and University of Gothenburg
Kei Hiruta, Wolfson College, Oxford
Michelle Hutchinson, Giving What We Can society
Guy Kahane, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Pembroke College, Oxford
Andreas Kappes, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Seth Lazar, Australian National University
S. Matthew Liao, New York University
William MacAskill, Lincoln College, Oxford
Hannah Maslen, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Jeff McMahan, University of Oxford
Ole Martin Moen, University of Oslo
Sean O hEigeartaigh, Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER)
Russell Powell, Boston University
Jonathan Pugh, Wellcome Trust
Theron Pummer, University of St Andrews
Janet Radcliffe Richards, University of Oxford and the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Regina Rini, New York University
Simon Rippon, Central European University, Budapest
Rebecca Roache, Royal Holloway, University of London
Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Owen Schaefer, Oxford Centre for Neuroethics
Joshua Shepherd, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Jesus College, Oxford, and the Oxford Martin School
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University
Lance K. Stell, University of North Carolina
Dominic Wilkinson, John Radcliffe Hospital and Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
James Williams, University of Oxford