Studies in social philosophy / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Contributor:

Rescher, Nicholas, editor.

Series:

Collected Papers ; Volume 6

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 2005

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nicholas Rescher's interest in issues of social philosophy, now dating back over forty years, have resulted in four previous books: Distributive Justice (New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1966), Welfare: the Social Issues on Philosophical Perspective (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972), Public Concerns (Lanham, MI: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), and Fairness (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002). Additionally, however, he has during this time also written more than a dozen essays on various particular problems and issues of this domain-usually in response to the needs of some special occasion. The aim of the present volume is to collect this material together in coordinative conjunction. The resultant book will not only offer a panorama of Rescher's views on some of the key issues of the field, but also convey a sense of the procedural ways and means by which Rescher think that philosophical deliberations can serve to shed some instructive light on such ever-controversial matters. For Rescher is convinced in theory and has sought to illustrate in practice that constructive thinking in this domain calls for implementing a quantitative approach from a moral perspective, and that neither the measurable quantities not the intangible values of the situation can be overlooked in a cogent assessment of the issues. It is his hope that these essays will confirm the justice of this conviction.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

PREFACE

Chapter 1: TECHNOLOGY, COMPLEXITY, AND SOCIAL DECISION

Chapter 2: RISKING DEMOCRACY

Chapter 3: IS CONSENSUS REQUIRED FOR A RATIONAL SOCIAL ORDER?

Chapter 4: MORALITY IN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Chapter 5: ON THE RATIONALE OF GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION

Chapter 6: SOCIAL WELFARE: SOME PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES

Chapter 7: COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY

Chapter 8: THE BELL CURVE REVISITED

Chapter 9: IN THE LINE OF DUTY

Chapter 10: TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND HUMAN HAPPINESS

Chapter 11: THE SOCIAL VALUE OF A LIFE

Chapter 12: THE ALLOCATION OF EXOTIC MEDICAL LIFESAVING THERAPY

Chapter 13: ETHICAL ISSUES REGARDING THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH-CARE SERVICES

Chapter 14: MORAL ISSUES RELATING TO THE ECONOMICS OF NEW KNOWLEDGE IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES

Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110326369

3110326361

OCLC:

922945815