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In this exciting account of the development and sustainability of the liberal democratic state, Ajume H. Wingo argues that it is non-rational factors that more often than not provide the real source of motivation. Wingo demonstrates that these 'veils' can play an essential role in a thriving liberal democratic state.

In this 2001 volume a group of leading philosophers address some of the basic conceptual, methodological and ethical issues raised by genetic research into criminal behavior. The volume will be of particular value to philosophers concerned with applied ethics (especially bioethics), behavioral geneticists, psychologists, legal theorists, and criminologists.

A collection of original essays by some of the leading moral and political thinkers of our time on the ethical and legal implications of humanitarian military intervention. This challenging and timely volume presents a variety of normative perspectives on topics such as the just-war theory and its limits.

Turns the perspectives of disability scholars on issues that have largely been the province of health methodology, policy and philosophy, while angling philosophical policy analysis on problems that have largely been the province of disability scholarship.

This book gives an in-depth philosophical analysis of moral problems to which information technology gives rise, for example, problems related to privacy, intellectual property, responsibility, friendship and trust, with contributions from many of the best-known philosophers writing in the area.

This important collection of essays brings together the work of prominent philosophers, political scientists, policy analysts, and defence consultants. It takes as its point of departure two central tendencies in current nuclear strategy: mutual assured destruction (MAD) and nuclear utilization target selections (NUTS).

This important collection of essays offers a sustained philosophical examination of fundamental questions raised by multicultural education in primary and secondary schools. The essays focus on both theory and policy.

As globalization has deepened worldwide economic integration, moral and political philosophers have become increasingly concerned to assess duties to help needy people in foreign countries. The essays in this volume present ideas on this important topic by authors who are leading figures in these debates.

Price brings a multi-disciplinary approach to an understanding of why leaders fail ethically in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. He argues that leaders acknowledge moral requirements but are mistaken as to their applicability and relevance in particular situations, allowing themselves exceptions to this rule.

Offering the fullest, most rigorous and up-to-date treatment of police ethics currently available, this book will be a perfect textbook in courses on applied ethics in philosophy departments or police and criminal justice ethics in departments of criminology and law schools.

This book argues for increased recognition of pregnancy, birthing and childrearing as social activities demanding simultaneously physical, intellectual, emotional and moral work from those who undertake them. Written from the perspective of a feminist philosopher, it seeks to increase dialogue between philosophers and childcare professionals, disability theorists, nurses and sociologists.

As globalization has deepened worldwide economic integration, moral and political philosophers have become increasingly concerned to assess duties to help needy people in foreign countries. The essays in this volume present ideas on this important topic by authors who are leading figures in these debates.

This book is a philosophically sophisticated and scientifically well-informed discussion of the moral and social issues raised by genetically engineering animals, a powerful technology which has major implications for society. Bernard Rollin is both a professor of philosophy, and physiology and biophysics, and writes from a uniquely well-informed perspective on this topic.

Do adults have the right to use drugs for recreational purposes? This was the first serious work to address the question, and argues that the 'war on drugs' violates the rights of adults wanting to use drugs for pleasure, and that criminal laws against this use are incompatible with moral rights.

Might there not be some justification in terrorists targeting certain victims but not others? In this volume a group of distinguished moral and social thinkers address the urgent problem of terrorism.

A group of distinguished legal and political theorists and experts on journalism discuss how US policy issues treat government regulation of the media and how newspapers and television are regulated differently. This is a book for anyone seriously interested in the rights to free speech and expression in technologically advanced societies.

Mark Sagoff draws on the last twenty years of debate over the foundations of environmentalism in this comprehensive revision of The Economy of the Earth. Posing questions pertinent to consumption, cost-benefit analysis, the normative implications of neo-Darwinism, the role of the natural in national history, and the centrality of the concept of place in environmental ethics, he analyses social policy in relation to the environment, pollution, the workplace, and public safely and health. Sagoff distinguishes ethical from economic questions and explains which kinds of concepts, arguments, and processes are appropriate to each. He offers a critique 'preference' and 'willingness to pay' as measures of value in environmental economics and defends political, cultural, aesthetic, and ethical reasons to protect the natural environment.

In this 1991 book about the principles of the US agricultural policy and foreign aid, Professor Thompson focuses his argument on protectionist challenges to foriegn aid and development assistance programmes.

This wide-ranging collection of essays by one of the foremost medical ethicists in the USA explores the claim that justification in ethics, whether of matters of theory or practice, involves achieving coherence between our moral and non-moral beliefs.

This important collection of essays brings together the work of prominent philosophers, political scientists, policy analysts, and defence consultants. It takes as its point of departure two central tendencies in current nuclear strategy: mutual assured destruction (MAD) and nuclear utilization target selections (NUTS).

This 1993 book is the first post-Cold War assessment of nuclear deterrence. It provides a comprehensive normative understanding of nuclear deterrence policy, examining both its ethical and strategic dimensions.

This book is a comprehensive account of what it means to try to quantify health in distributing resources for health care. Erik Nord presents an approach called cost-value analysis in which samples of the general public express preferences between different health-care programs.

David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. This major book will be especially helpful to those teaching applied ethics and bioethics in philosophy or in law and medicine and to general readers for whom abortion remains a high-profile issue.

In this collection, Dan Brock, a distinguished philosopher and bioethicist and co-author of Deciding for Others (Cambridge, 1989), explores the moral issues raised by new ideals of shared decision making between physicians and patients.

Brings together a wide-ranging collection of the papers written by political theorist, Jeremy Waldron. The first six chapters deal with freedom, toleration and neutrality, and argue for a robust conception of liberty, while following chapters are concerned with socio-economic rights.

This book offers original and innovative contributions to the debate about equality of opportunity. The author examines standardized tests, affirmative action, workfare, universal health-care, comparable worth, and the economic consequences of divorce.

James Sterba develops a conception of justice deriving from libertarianism and then applies it to a wide range of issues. This is a highly original and potentially controversial book that would be ideal for courses in applied ethics, political philosophy, environmental studies, women's studies, and peace studies.

This book attacks the assumption found in much moral philosophy that social control as such is an intellectually and morally destructive force.

Robert E. Goodin, a philosopher with many books on political theory, public policy and applied ethics to his credit, defends utilitarianism against its critics and shows how it can be applied most effectively over a wide range of public policies.

William Galston challenges the view that the essence of liberalism is that it should remain neutral concerning different ways of life and conceptions of what is good or valuable.William Galston challenges the view that the essence of liberalism is that it should remain neutral concerning different ways of life and conceptions of what is good or valuable.