Rights and their limits : in theory, cases, and pandemics / F.M. Kamm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kamm, F. M. (Frances Myrna), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--Moral and ethical aspects.

Civil rights.

Human rights--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human rights.

Public interest--Moral and ethical aspects.

Public interest.

Employee rights--Moral and ethical aspects.

Employee rights.

Human rights--Philosophy.

Ethics.

Harm reduction--Moral and ethical aspects.

Harm reduction.

COVID-19 (Disease)--Prevention--Moral and ethical aspects.

COVID-19 (Disease).

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Prevention--Moral and ethical aspects.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.

COVID-19 vaccines--Social aspects.

COVID-19 vaccines.

COVID-19 vaccines--Moral and ethical aspects.

Epidemics--Prevention--Moral and ethical aspects.

Epidemics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 369 pages)

Other Title:

In theory, cases, and pandemics

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

In this volume, noted moral philosopher F.M. Kamm explores how rights and their limits are recognised in theories and in judgments about hypothetical and practical cases. The author begins by considering moral status and its relation to rights and duties and next, investigates the extent of the right not to be harmed by considering the costs morally required to avoid harming and offering a proposal for permissibly harming someone (that allows for resisting the harm) in the Trolley Problem. Kamm further considers the relevance of the Trolley Problem for issues in applied ethics such as self-driving cars. The book concludes with an exploration of the significance of the right not to be harmed in a pandemic, and for a morally correct policy on torture.

Contents:

Moral status, rights, and parfit's no-difference view

Rights that ethical responsibility cannot justify and agreements may not undermine

What "must" be done to answer practical questions?

Rights and their related duties

Intuitions, the veil of ignorance, and strains of commitment

Neuroscience, psychology, and moral reasoning

The irrelevance of deontological distinctions and "moral inertia"?

Duties that become supererogatory or forbidden?

Rights and their limits: nonconsequentialism in light of the trolley problem

The use and abuse of the trolley problem: self-driving cars, medical treatments, and the distribution of harm

The trolley problem and economic policy

Thought experiments: art and ethics

The torture puzzle

Rights and aggregation in a pandemic

Harms, wrongs, and meaning in a pandemic.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 8, 2022).

ISBN:

9780197567753

0197567754

9780197567760

0197567762

9780197567746

0197567746