Philosophy and Its Public Role

Informationen zum Autor William Aiken is Professor of Philosophy at Chatham College! Pennsylvania. He has published in several areas of applied philosophy! principally on quality of life issues and environmental ethics! in journals such as Applied Philosophy and Environmental Values and in various edited collections. John Arthur is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in Philosophy! Politics! and Law at Binghamton University! SUNY. His areas of research include philosophy of law and political philosophy. Bob Brecher is Reader in Moral Philosophy in the School of Historical and Critical Studies! University of Brighton. He is former President of the UK Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and founding editor of Res Publica. Richard Brook is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include the history of modern philosophy! and moral theory. David Carr is Professor of Philosophy of Education in the University of Edinburgh. James Child is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Fellow of the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. Geoffrey Cupit is Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Waikato! New Zealand. Wendy Donner is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University! Canada. Anthony Ellis was Chair of the Moral Philosophy Department in the University of St. Andrews where he was also co-founder and first Academic Director of the Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs. Thereafter he became Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair in Virginia Commonwealth University. Daniel Farrell is Professor of Philosophy and sometime Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University. Bart Gruzalski was Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University in Boston! before co-founding in California the Pacific Center for Sustainable Living. John Haldane is Professor of Philosophy in the University of St Andrews where he is also Director of the Centre for Ethics! Philosophy and Public Affairs. He has also been Royden Davis Professor of Humanities at Georgetown University. Jonathan Jacobs is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Division of Humanities at Colgate University! New York State. Rex Martin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas and was also Professor of Political Theory and Government in the University of Wales Swansea. Terence McLaughlin is Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Institute of Education! University of London and Fellow of St Edmund's College! Cambridge. He is also currently Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. Andrew Moore is a Senior Lecturer and in the Department of Philosophy! University of Otago! New Zealand. He also chairs New Zealand's National Ethics Advisory Committee. Lisa Portmess is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Gettysburg College! Pennsylvania. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on the Contributors Introduction by William Aiken and John Haldane I. Philosophy! Society and Culture ================================== 1. American Philosophy and its Public Role by John Haldane 2. Do Intellectuals have a Special Public Responsibility? by Bob Brecher 3. Impartial Public Reason and its Critics by John Arthur 4. Human Nature! Society and Education by David Carr 5. Philosophy! Values and Schooling by Terence McLaughlin 6. Is Cultural Membership a Good? by Wendy Donner II. Ethics! Economics and Justice ================================== 7. Consent! Dissent and Posthumous Reproduction by Andrew Moore 8. Three Ways to Value Equality by Geoffrey Cupit 9. Mitigating our Consumption of our Living Standard by Bart Gruzalski 10. Globalisation! Technology and the New Economy by James Child 11. Statistical and Identifiable Deaths by Richard Brook III. Justice! Law and Punishment ==============================...

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• Authors: J. J. Aiken Haldane, John Aiken Haldane
• Assisted by: William Aiken (Editor), William Aitken (Editor), John Haldane (Editor)
• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2004
• EAN: 9781845400033
• ISBN: 978-1-84540-003-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: St Andrews Studies in Philosop; St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs; St Andrews Studies in Philosop
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous