Applied Ethics

by Michael Tooley, Derek Parfit, Nicholas Measor, et al.

Book Overview

This volume collects a wealth of 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. The contributors are Thomas Nagel, David Hume, James Rachels, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Michael...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198750676
• ISBN13: 9780198750673
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"