Consider Ethics: Theory, Readings, and Contemporary Issues, 3rd Edition. Waller, Youngstown State University. ©2011 Pearson Available. Consider ethics: theory, readings, and contemporary issues Item Preview. Waller, Bruce N., 1946-Publication date 2005 Topics Ethics Publisher New York: Pearson/Longman. Borrow this book to access EPUB and PDF files. IN COLLECTIONS. Books to Borrow. Books for People with Print Disabilities.
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Preface
1. Campus Speech Codes: Protection Against Intolerance or Destruction of Free Speech?
Protection Against Intolerance
Advocate: Andrew Altman, Professor of Philosophy, Georgia State University
Source: Liberalism and Campus Hate Speech: A Philosophical Examination, Ethics, volume 103 (January 1993).
Destruction of Free Speech
Advocate: Jonathan Rauch, writer for The Economist, author of The Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Source: In Defense of Prejudice: Why Incendiary Speech Must Be Protected, Harpers Magazine, May 1995.
2. Pornography: Public Harm That Should Be Censored or Private Choice That Must Be Tolerated?
Public Harm That Should Be Censored
Advocate: Andrea Dworkin, a writer and lecturer, has been very active in passing ordinances that categorize pornography as sex discrimination, thus increasing opportunities for legal action against pornography.
Source: Letters in a War Zone, 1988, Dutton
Private Choice That Must Be Tolerated
Advocate: Mark R. Wicclair
Source: Feminism, Pornography, and Censorship, 1985 by Wicclair. Page 233 in Social Ethics, 6th Edition, Mappes and Zembaty.
3. Affirmative Action Programs: Unfair Discrimination or Basic Justice?
Unfair Discrimination
Advocate: Carl Cohen, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, author of many works in ethics, political philosophy, and logic.
Source: 'Why Race Preference is Wrong and Bad,' from affirmative Action and Racial Preference: A Debate, by Carl Cohen and James P. Sterba (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
Basic Justice
Advocates: Luke Charles Harris and Uma Narayan
Source: Affirmative Action as Equalizing Opportunity: Challenging the Myth of `Preferential Treatment, National Black Law Journal volume 16, issue 2; 199/2000.
4. The Rights of NonHuman Animals: Sorely Neglected or Nonexistent?
Sorely Neglected
Advocate: Tom Regan, Professor of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, leader in the animal rights movement, and author of The Case for Animal Rights (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1983)
Source: The Case for Animal Rights, From Peter Singer, Editor, In Defense of Animals (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, Inc., 1985): 13-26.
Nonexistent
Advocate: Carl Cohen, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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