Applying Ethics: A Text with Readings, 11th Edition

Julie C. Van Camp, Jeffrey Olen, Vincent Barry

Copyright 2015
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Help your students discover the ethical issues and implications surrounding today's most compelling social dilemmas--from genetic engineering and cloning to terrorism and the use of torture--with APPLYING ETHICS: A TEXT WITH READINGS, 11th Edition. Framed by the authors' helpful introductions and supported by a variety of readings and cases that reflect both sides of the topics being explored, this best-selling book offers a balanced introduction to ethics today.

Meet the Authors

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Julie C. Van Camp

Julie C. Van Camp is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach, where she taught philosophy of law and applied ethics. Along with a Ph.D. in philosophy from Temple University, she holds a J.D. from Georgetown University. She has been admitted to the State Bar of California and the District of Columbia Bar. She is the author of two other Cengage Learning titles, including ETHICAL ISSUES IN THE COURTS and ETHICS (4LTR Press).

Jeffrey Olen

Jeffrey Olen is the author of PERSONS AND THEIR WORLD, ETHICS IN JOURNALISM, and MORAL FREEDOM, in addition to journal articles on a variety of topics. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Temple University, the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, and Regis University-Colorado Springs.

Vincent Barry

Vincent Barry is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Bakersfield College, having taught there for thirty-four years as well as being a highly successful philosophy textbook author.

What's New

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New and revised content includes updated information on numerous "hot topics," including stem cell research (Ch. 6), the abolition of the death penalty in several states and the increased rate of execution of women (Ch. 7), efforts to combat terrorism and the use of drones (Ch. 8), and climate change (Ch. 11).
Chapter 3, "Sexual Morality," includes two new readings: Margaret A. Farley's "Framework for a Sexual Ethic: Just Sex" and Ann Ferguson's "Gay Marriage: An American and Feminist Dilemma," as well as new information on the latest U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
Revisions of Chapter 4, "Abortion," include a new reading by Bertha Alvarez Manninen, "Expanding the Discussion about Fetal Life within Prochoice Advocacy."
Revisions of Chapter 5, "Euthanasia," include a new reading by J. David Velleman, "Against the Right to Die."
Revisions of Chapter 9, "Globalization and Social Justice," include a new reading by Peter Singer, "Global Poverty: What Are Our Obligations?"

Features

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The book contains two distinct parts. Part 1, "Moral Reasoning," provides the philosophical background that many readers will find helpful. The first chapter deals with moral reasons and principles, drawing on the views of such philosophers as Aristotle, Kant, Mill, and Rawls. It also includes discussions of ethical relativism and what it means to think morally. The second chapter is an introduction to critical thinking, with particular emphasis on the evaluation of moral arguments.
In Part 2, "Issues," the book's carefully crafted and sequenced pedagogical features guide students from an easy-to-read introduction to the reading, to pro-and-con arguments on the topic, to post-reading questions for analysis, to case presentations followed by further questions for analysis.
The introductory essay in each Part 2 chapter is written by the book's authors. Each introduction lays out the relevant moral issues and background material and summarizes and clarifies the theoretical landscape of the moral debate under discussion.
Pro and con arguments on the chapter's central dispute, which follow the introductions, are written in colloquial "point–counterpoint" style.
Pro and con arguments in every Part 2 chapter are followed by four reading selections that offer multiple perspectives on the issue under discussion, with each preceded by headnotes summarizing the main points and followed by questions for analysis. These questions prepare students for in-class discussions or independent writing assignments by highlighting the arguments and reasons on both sides of the issue at hand.
Each chapter ends with four Case Presentations to provoke further class discussion.
The book's website includes a wealth of activities and content that supplement what students read in the book and learn in class.

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Part I: MORAL REASONING.
1. Moral Reasons.
2. Good Reasoning.
Part II: ISSUES.
3. Sexual Morality.
4. Abortion.
5. Euthanasia.
6. Genetic Engineering, Stem Cell Research, and Human Cloning.
7. Capital Punishment.
8. War, Terrorism, and Civil Liberties.
9. Globalization and Social Justice.
10. Discrimination.
11. Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics.
12. Computer Ethics and the Internet.