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Modern ethics in 77 arguments: a Stone reader
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From the Book
ON EXISTENCE
The meaningfulness of lives / Todd May
There is no theory of everything / Simon Critchley
The light at the end of suffering / Peg O'Connor
Being there: Heidegger on why our presence matters / Lawrence Berger
Against invulnerability / Todd May
Why life is absurd / Rivka Weinberg
A life beyond "do what you love" / Gordon Marino
ON HUMAN NATURE
Evolution and our inner conflict / Edward O. Wilson
Learning how to die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton
Is pure altruism possible? / Judith Lichtenberg
Moral camouflage or moral monkeys? / Peter Railton
How should we respond to "evil"? / Steven Paulikas
The moral logic of survivor guilt / Nancy Sherman
How to live without irony / Christy Wampole
Deluded individualism / Firmin DeBrabander
ON MORALITY
The dangers of happiness / Carl Cederström
Are we ready for a "morality pill"? / Peter Singer and Agata Sagan
Why our children don't think there are moral facts / Justin P. McBrayer
Morals without God? / Frans de Waal
The dangers of certainty: a lesson from Auschwitz / Simon Critchley
Confessions of an ex-moralist / Joel Marks
The maze of moral relativism / Paul Boghossian
Can moral disputes be resolved? / Alex Rosenberg
Moral dispute or cultural difference? / Carol Rovane
ON RELIGION
Navigating past nihilism / Sean D. Kelly
Does it matter whether God exists? / Gary Gutting
Good minus God / Louise M. Antony
Pascal's wager 2.0 / Gary Gutting
The sacred and the humane / Anat Biletzki
Why God is a moral issue / Michael Ruse
The rigor of love / Simon Critchley
God is a question, not an answer / William Irwin
What's wrong with blasphemy? / Andrew F. March
ON GOVERNMENT
Questions for free-market moralists / Amia Srinivasan
Is our patriotism moral? / Gary Gutting
The irrationality of natural life sentences / Jennifer Lackey
Spinoza's vision of freedom, and ours / Steven Nadler
If war can have ethics, Wall Street can, too / Nathaniel B. Davis
The moral hazard of drones / John Kaag and Sarah Kreps
Reasons for reason / Michael P. Lynch
ON CITIZENSHIP
The morality of migration / Seyla Benhabib
What do we owe each other? / Aaron James Wendland
Can refugees have human rights? / Omri Boehm
Dependents of the state / Amia Srinivasan
Is voting out of self-interest wrong? / Gary Gutting
ON VIOLENCE
Philosophizing with guns / Simone Gubler
A crack in the stoic's armor / Nancy Sherman
Who needs a gun? / Gary Gutting
The freedom of an armed society / Firmin DeBrabander
Is American nonviolence possible? / Todd May
ON RACE
Walking while black in the "white gaze" / George Yancy
Race, truth and our two realities / Chris Lebron
Getting past the outrage on race / Gary Gutting
Philosophy's Western bias / Justin E.H. Smith
Dear White America / George Yancy
Of cannibals, kings and culture: the problem of ethnocentricity / Adam Etinson
What, to the black American, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day? / Chris Lebron
Is real inclusiveness possible? / Justin E.H. Smith
ON WOMEN
When prostitution is nobody's business / Laurie Shrage
On abortion and defining a "person" / Gary Gutting
Girlfriend, mother, professor? / Carol Hay
The disappearing women / Rae Langton
A feminist Kant / Carol Hay
ON FAMILY
Think before you breed / Christine Overall
Is forced fatherhood fair? / Laurie Shrage
"Mommy wars" redux: a false conflict / Amy Allen
The end of "marriage" / Laurie Shrage
My parents' mixed messages on the Holocaust / Jason Stanley
ON EATING
The meat eaters / Jeff McMahan
If peas can talk, should we eat them? / Michael Marder
When vegans won't compromise / Bob Fischer and James McWilliams
The enigma of animal suffering / Rhys Southan
ON THE FUTURE
Is humanity getting better? / Leif Wenar
Should this be the last generation? / Peter Singer
What do we owe the future? / Patricia I. Vieira and Michael Marder
The importance of the afterlife. Seriously. / Samuel Scheffler
Accepting the past, facing the future / Todd May.
From the Book
On violence. Philosophizing with guns / Simone Gubler
A crack in the stoic's armor / Nancy Sherman
Who needs a gun? / Gary Gutting
The freedom of an armed society / Firmin DeBrabander
Is American nonviolence possible? / Todd May
On race. Walking while black in the "white gaze" / George Yancy
Race, truth and our two realities / Chris Lebron
Getting past the outrage on race / Gary Gutting
Philosophy's Western bias / Justin E.H. Smith
Dear White America / George Yancy
Of cannibals, kings and culture : the problem of ethnocentricity / Adam Etinson
What, to the black American, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day? / Chris Lebron
Is real inclusiveness possible? / Justin E.H. Smith
On women. When prostitution is nobody's business / Laurie Shrage
On abortion and defining a "person" / Gary Gutting
Girlfriend, mother, professor? / Carol Hay
The disappearing women / Rae Langton
A feminist Kant / Carol Hay
On family. Think before you breed / Christine Overall
Is forced fatherhood fair? / Laurie Shrage
"Mommy wars" redux : a false conflict / Amy Allen
The end of "marriage" / Laurie Shrage
My parents' mixed messages on the Holocaust / Jason Stanley
On eating. The meat eaters / Jeff McMahan
If peas can talk, should we eat them? / Michael Marder
When vegans won't compromise / Bob Fischer and James McWilliams
The enigma of animal suffering / Rhys Southan
On the future. Is humanity getting better? / Leif Wenar
Should this be the last generation? / Peter Singer
What do we owe the future? / Patricia I. Vieira and Michael Marder
The importance of the afterlife, seriously / Samuel Scheffler
Accepting the past, facing the future / Todd May.
On existence. The meaningfulness of lives / Todd May
There is no theory of everything / Simon Critchley
The light at the end of suffering / Peg O'Connor
Being there: Heidegger on why our presence matters / Lawrence Berger
Against invulnerability / Todd May
Why life is absurd / Rivka Weinberg
A life beyond "do what you love" / Gordon Marino
On human nature. Evolution and our inner conflict / Edward O. Wilson
Learning how to die in the Anthropocene / Roy Scranton
Is pure altruism possible? / Judith Lichtenberg
Moral camouflage or moral monkeys? / Peter Railton
How should we respond to "evil"? / Steven Paulikas
The moral logic of survivor guilt / Nancy Sherman
How to live without irony / Christy Wampole
Deluded individualism / Firmin DeBrabander
ON MORALITY
The dangers of happiness / Carl Cederström
Are we ready for a "morality pill"? / Peter Singer and Agata Sagan
Why our children don't think there are moral facts / Justin P. McBrayer
Morals without God? / Frans de Waal
The dangers of certainty : a lesson from Auschwitz / Simon Critchley
Confessions of an ex-moralist / Joel Marks
The maze of moral relativism / Paul Boghossian
Can moral disputes be resolved? / Alex Rosenberg
Moral dispute or cultural difference? / Carol Rovane
On religion. Navigating past nihilism / Sean D. Kelly
Does it matter whether God exists? / Gary Gutting
Good minus God / Louise M. Antony
Pascal's wager 2.0 / Gary Gutting
The sacred and the humane / Anat Biletzki
Why God is a moral issue / Michael Ruse
The rigor of love / Simon Critchley
God is a question, not an answer / William Irwin
What's wrong with blasphemy? / Andrew F. March
On government Questions for free-market moralists / Amia Srinivasan
Is our patriotism moral? / Gary Gutting
The irrationality of natural life sentences / Jennifer Lackey
Spinoza's vision of freedom, and ours / Steven Nadler
If war can have ethics, Wall Street can, too / Nathaniel B. Davis
The moral hazard of drones / John Kaag and Sarah Kreps
Reasons for reason / Michael P. Lynch
On citizenship. The morality of migration / Seyla Benhabib
What do we owe each other? / Aaron James Wendland
Can refugees have human rights? / Omri Boehm
Dependents of the state / Amia Srinivasan
Is voting out of self-interest wrong? / Gary Gutting.
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