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Debating Sex Work
Prostitution is often referred to as "oldest profession." Critics of this expression redescribe it as "the oldest oppression." Debates about how best to understand and regulate prostitution are bound up with difficult moral, legal, and political questions. Indeed, it can be approached from numerous angles--is buying and selling sex fundamentally wrong? How can it possibly be regulated? How can sex workers be protected, if they are allowed to work at all? In this concise, for-and-against volume, ethicists Lori Watson and Jessica Flanigan engage with each other on the nature and consequences of sex work, revealing new and profound ways in which to understand it. The volume opens with a joint i...
The Dialectics of Liberty
This collection of essays explores the ways in which the defense of liberty can be bolstered by use of a dialectical method—that is, a mode of analysis devoted to grasping the full context of philosophical, cultural, and social factors requisite to the sustenance of human freedom. Its strength lies in the variety of disciplines and perspectives represented by contributors who apply explicitly dialectical tools to a classical liberal / libertarian analysis of social and cultural issues. In its conjoining of a dialectical method, typically associated with the socialist left, to a defense of individual liberty, typically associated with the libertarian right, this anthology challenges contemporary attitudes on both ends of the political spectrum. Though this conjunction of dialectics and liberty has been explored before in several works, including a trilogy of books written by one of our coeditors (Chris Matthew Sciabarra), this volume will be the first one of its kind to bring together accomplished scholars in political science, economics, philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, law, history, education, and rhetoric.
Arguing about Political Philosophy
Arguing About Political Philosophy is an engaging survey of political philosophy perfect for beginning and advanced undergraduates. Selections cover classic philosophical sources such as Rousseau and Locke, as well as contemporary writers such as Nozick and Dworkin. In addition, this text includes a number of readings drawn from economics, literature, and sociology which serve to introduce philosophical questions about politics in a novel and intriguing way. As well as standard topics such as political authority and distributive justice, special attention is given to global issues which have become especially pressing in recent years, such as the right of individuals or groups to secede, the...
Pharmaceutical Freedom
Jessica Flanigan defends patients' rights of self-medication on the grounds that same moral reasons against medical paternalism in clinical contexts are also reasons against paternalistic pharmaceutical policies, including prohibitive approval processes and prescription requirements.
Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy
Provides material that encourages reflective and critical examination of key contemporary moral problems. This book enhances the teachability and maintains its ability to bring the central issues into clear focus, while allowing supporting arguments for diverse positions to be presented by those who embrace them.
Exploitation
Exploitation: Perspectives from Philosophy, Politics, and Economics brings together recent scholarly work on the topic of exploitation from philosophy, political science, and economics in one volume, organised around three main questions: What is exploitation? Why is exploitation wrong? What should we do about it? The book includes contributions from both seasoned scholars and new voices, covering issues as diverse as climate change, paid plasma donation, and international justice.
Arguing about Metaphysics
Scholars including David Lewis, Peer van Inwagen, A.N. Prior & Alvin Plantinga have contributed over 40 essays to this introduction to metaphysics, aimed at undergraduates coming to philosophy for the first time.
