Critique Of Applied Ethics

Abraham Edel is Research Professor, University of Pennsylvania, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, City University of New York. He has also written The Struggle for Academic Democracy: Lessons from the 1938 Revolution in New York's City Colleges (Temple).

• Preface Introduction Part I: Philosophical Backgrounds for Applied Ethics 1. Practical Moral Problems in an Age of Rapid Technological and Social Change 2. Moral Orders 3. Ethical Theories: Intellectual Tools for Applied Ethics 4. Knowledge in Moral Decision Part II: From Diagnosis to Moral Decision 5. Diagnosis 6. Context 7. Formulating the Ethical Issue 8. Jurisdiction, Roles, and Occupations: The Regionalization of Morality 9. Institution and Individual 10. Discovery and Innovation 11. The Decision Factor and Its Dimensions 12. Some Theoretical Conclusions, or How Practice Educates Theory Notes Index

"Part One is historically rich and analytically sophisticated. It is unquestionably the best treatment of the applied ethics landscape. In Part Two, the authors have an uncanny sense of the issues and a remarkable ability to demythologize the jargon temple of doom, such that controversial philosophical positions are rendered clear... I look forward to teaching from this book." -John J. McDermott, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Professor and Head of Humanities in Medicine, Texas A&M University