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Engaged Philosophy : Essays in Honour of David Braybrooke /

Engaged Philosophy is an invaluable collection for anyone who has engaged with Braybrooke's writings or is interested in the future directions North American philosophy might take.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sherwin, Susan, 1947- (Editor ), Schotch, Peter K. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction: About David Braybrooke
  • 1.1 David Braybrooke, the Personal Story
  • 1.2 David Braybrooke, the Scholar
  • 1.3 Overview of Essays
  • 1.4 References
  • PART ONE: PRACTICAL ENGAGEMENT
  • 2 Teaching Class: Justice and Privatization in Education
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Privatization and Costs
  • 2.3 Two Normative Contrasts
  • 2.4 Education, Equality, and Choice
  • 2.5 The Priority of Justice
  • 2.6 Education as a Human Need
  • 2.7 Fair Opportunity
  • 2.8 Teaching Class
  • 3 Determining Health Care Needs after the Human Genome Project: Reflections on Genetic Tests for Breast Cancer3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The World after the Human Genome Project
  • 3.3 The Case for Treating BRCA Testing as a Need
  • 3.4 Some Complicating Features of BRCA Testing
  • 3.5 Towards a Relational Understanding of Needs
  • 3.6 BRCA Testing Revisited
  • 4 The Mutual Limitation of Needs as Bases of Moral Entitlements: A Solution to Braybrookeâ€?s Problem
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 The Appeal of Needs
  • 4.3 Braybrookeâ€?s Problem
  • 4.4 Possible Solutions to Braybrookeâ€?s Problem5 Canadians and Global Beneficence: Human Security Revisited
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 The Ethics of State Responsibility
  • 5.3 â€?Freedom from Fearâ€? and â€?Freedom from Wantâ€?
  • 5.4 The Ethics of Individual Responsibility
  • 5.5 Rethinking Human Security
  • 6 Braybrooke on Public Policy: Precautionary and Fair; Feasible and Ameliorative
  • 6.1 Introduction to Braybrookeâ€?s Strategy
  • 6.2 Approaches to Making Public Policy
  • 6.3 Braybrookeâ€?s Citizen Management
  • 6.4 Policy Applications Compared
  • 6.5 Conclusion7 Life of Pi and the Existence of Tigers
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Authorâ€?s Note
  • 7.3 Toronto and Pondicherry
  • 7.4 A Digression on Belief
  • 7.5 The Tiger in the Lifeboat
  • 7.6 Ockhamâ€?s Razor
  • 7.7 Ministry of Transport Investigators
  • 7.8 Which Is the Better Story?
  • 7.9 Is the Tiger REAL?
  • PART TWO: THEORETICAL ENGAGEMENT
  • 8 David Braybrookeâ€?s Philosophy of Social Science
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Traditional Philosophy of Social Science
  • 8.3 Braybrookeâ€?s Contribution
  • 8.4 Feminist Epistemologies
  • 8.5 Conclusions9 Empathy and Egoism
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Shermanâ€?s Account of Empathy
  • 9.3 Default Egoism in Sherman
  • 9.4 Imagining Empathic Selves
  • 9.5 Moral Sentiment
  • 9.6 Common Purpose and Relational Interests
  • 9.7 Re-imagining the Self
  • 10 The Problem of Moral Judgement
  • 10.1 The Problem
  • 10.2 Moral Realism: The Default Position
  • 10.3 Externalist Moral Realism
  • 10.4 Internalist Moral Realism
  • 10.5 The Belief-Desire Theory of Moral Judgment
  • 10.6 Two Objections Briefly Considered