Engaged philosophy : essays in honour of David Braybrooke / edited by Susan Sherwin and Peter Schotch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sherwin, Susan, 1947- editor.

Schotch, Peter K., editor.

Medieval Academy of America.

Standardized Title:

Miroir du monde. English (Middle English)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Braybrooke, David.

Philosophy and social sciences.

Ethics.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (438 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Engaged Philosophy is an invaluable collection for anyone who has engaged with Braybrooke's writings or is interested in the future directions North American philosophy might take.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: About David Braybrooke

1.1 David Braybrooke, the Personal Story

1.2 David Braybrooke, the Scholar

1.3 Overview of Essays

1.4 References

PART ONE: PRACTICAL ENGAGEMENT

2 Teaching Class: Justice and Privatization in Education

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Privatization and Costs

2.3 Two Normative Contrasts

2.4 Education, Equality, and Choice

2.5 The Priority of Justice

2.6 Education as a Human Need

2.7 Fair Opportunity

2.8 Teaching Class

3 Determining Health Care Needs after the Human Genome Project: Reflections on Genetic Tests for Breast Cancer3.1 Introduction

3.2 The World after the Human Genome Project

3.3 The Case for Treating BRCA Testing as a Need

3.4 Some Complicating Features of BRCA Testing

3.5 Towards a Relational Understanding of Needs

3.6 BRCA Testing Revisited

4 The Mutual Limitation of Needs as Bases of Moral Entitlements: A Solution to Braybrooke�s Problem

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The Appeal of Needs

4.3 Braybrooke�s Problem

4.4 Possible Solutions to Braybrooke�s Problem5 Canadians and Global Beneficence: Human Security Revisited

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Ethics of State Responsibility

5.3 �Freedom from Fear� and �Freedom from Want�

5.4 The Ethics of Individual Responsibility

5.5 Rethinking Human Security

6 Braybrooke on Public Policy: Precautionary and Fair; Feasible and Ameliorative

6.1 Introduction to Braybrooke�s Strategy

6.2 Approaches to Making Public Policy

6.3 Braybrooke�s Citizen Management

6.4 Policy Applications Compared

6.5 Conclusion7 Life of Pi and the Existence of Tigers

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Author�s Note

7.3 Toronto and Pondicherry

7.4 A Digression on Belief

7.5 The Tiger in the Lifeboat

7.6 Ockham�s Razor

7.7 Ministry of Transport Investigators

7.8 Which Is the Better Story?

7.9 Is the Tiger REAL?

PART TWO: THEORETICAL ENGAGEMENT

8 David Braybrooke�s Philosophy of Social Science

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Traditional Philosophy of Social Science

8.3 Braybrooke�s Contribution

8.4 Feminist Epistemologies

8.5 Conclusions9 Empathy and Egoism

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Sherman�s Account of Empathy

9.3 Default Egoism in Sherman

9.4 Imagining Empathic Selves

9.5 Moral Sentiment

9.6 Common Purpose and Relational Interests

9.7 Re-imagining the Self

10 The Problem of Moral Judgement

10.1 The Problem

10.2 Moral Realism: The Default Position

10.3 Externalist Moral Realism

10.4 Internalist Moral Realism

10.5 The Belief-Desire Theory of Moral Judgment

10.6 Two Objections Briefly Considered

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-8429-1

OCLC:

923083339