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11Philosophy: The Big Questions (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2004.Philosophy: The Big Questions occupies a unique positionamong introductory texts in philosophy. Designed for asingle-semester introductory course in philosophy, it includes bothclassic readings in philosophy and newer articles. Presents, in one volume, canonical and contemporary works inethics, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, andepistemology. Topics discussed include knowledge, religion, freedom,morality, and the meaning of life. Serves as a comprehensive and compelling introduction tophilo…Read more
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11Review of Amy Mullin, Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, Experience, and Reproductive Labor (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (10). 2005.
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11Human RightsProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 55 (n/a): 268-276. 1981.
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10Response to Narveson on the Refugees ProblemInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 31 (1): 89-92. 2017.
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9Nine commentators: A brief responseJournal of Social Philosophy 22 (3): 100-118. 1991.So much of the work that we do as philosophers is published without much critical commentary from our colleagues. Only rarely do we have the chance to improve our work through the extensive critical analysis of our colleagues. That is why I am very grateful to have this opportunity to benefit from the valuable critical analysis that the contributors to this volume have directed at my practical reconciliation argument for making people just. While in this brief response I cannot hope to discuss a…Read more
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9This up-to-date introductory social and political philosophy text provides a survey of the major social and political ideals of our time and discusses the practical requirements of each of these ideals. It argues for the controversial thesis that all contemporary social and political ideals can be reconciled in practice-a challenging idea for students to discuss and evaluate.
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8The Triumph of Practice Over Theory in EthicsOxford University Press USA. 2004.Aristotelian ethics, Kantian ethics, and utilitarian ethics have been for some time now the main options within ethics, and the central task over the years has been to determine which of the three is right. Is this book yet another attempt to fulfill this same old task? Not at all. Sterba argues that in their ongoing attempts to put forward for general consideration the most morally defensible versions of their views, advocates of Aristotelian ethics, Kantian ethics, and utilitarian ethics have …Read more
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6Review of Martha Nussbaum, Amartya Sen and Master Amartya Sen: The Quality of Life (review)Ethics 105 (1): 198-201. 1994.
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4From Rationality to EqualityOxford University Press UK. 2012.Most contemporary moral and political philosophers would like to have an argument showing that morality is rationally required. In From Rationality to Equality, James P. Sterba provides just such an argument and further shows that morality, so justified, requires substantial equality and is preferable to egoism. Sterba defends his two-part argument against recent critics, and shows how it is preferable not only to alternative attempts to justify morality, but also to alternative attempts to show…Read more
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4Ethics: The Big Questions (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1998.This anthology focuses on the central questions of ethics: What is the nature of morality? Why be moral? What are the requirements of morality?
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4The Pursuit of Justice: A Personal Philosophical HistoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2013.The Pursuit of Justice: A Personal Philosophical History is a collection of renowned scholar and philosopher James P. Sterba’s finest works - essays spanning the full spectrum of his illustrious career along with new scholarship on the enduring struggle for justice we face as a society, and as individuals in the modern world. That struggle, or pursuit, may be ongoing, but – as this book details – it has come a long way, and that progress, however frustrating it may be to obtain and secure, is a …Read more
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3Review of Milton Fisk: Ethics and society: a Marxist interpretation of value (review)Ethics 93 (2): 391-392. 1983.
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