Peter Singer Under Fire by Schaler, Jeffrey -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

The Under Fire™ Series Dedication Title Page About the Authors Acknowledgments Singer’s Burden: Suffering and the Man An Intellectual Autobiography I - THE MORAL STATUS OF ANIMALS

1 - The Human Prejudice Reply to Bernard Williams

A Rare Defense of Speciesism Taking an Impartial Perspective Is Speciesism Like Racism and Sexism? “Which Side Are You On?”

2 - Justifying Animal Use

I. Utilitarianism and Animals’ Pain II. Our Use of Animals III. Preferences and Quality of Life IV. Vegetarianism as Protest

Reply to R.G. Frey

Beyond Speciesism and Absolutism Why We Should Be Vegetarian Comparing Utilities

II - THE SANCTITY OF LIFE

3 - Singer on Abortion and Infanticide

The Sanctity of Human Life Why Killing Is Wrong Respect for Autonomy Classical Utilitarianism Preference Utilitarianism Why Persons Have a Right to Life Infanticide Why the Tooley-Singer Theory Is Unsatisfactory Strategies for Repairing the Tooley-Singer View The Future of Value Account of the Wrongness of Killing Potentiality Human Embryos Conclusion

Reply to Don Marquis

A Critique from Shared Premises Two Counterexamples Preferences and False Beliefs When Did I Begin? What Am I?

4 - Singer’s Unsanctity of Human Life: A Critique

Moral Hero, But Animal Liberation and Infanticide Singer’s Views about Killing Infants Three Initial Problems Maximize Preferences or Pleasure? Act or Rule Utilitarianism? Conclusion

Reply to Harry J. Gensler

Philosophy, Utilitarianism, and Reticence Animal Liberation and Infanticide When Killing Is Wrong Preference Utilitarianism or Hedonistic Utilitarianism? Act- or Rule- Utilitarianism? Gensler’s Defense of the Sanctity of Human Life

5 - Unspeakable Conversations, or, How I Spent One Day as a Token Cripple at ...

My Dinner with Peter Sympathy for the Monster Afterword

Reply to Harriet McBryde Johnson

Disability and the Quality of Life Caring for the Irreversibly Unconscious The Philosopher and the Activist Disability Rights and Speciesism A Final Challenge Postscript

6 - Not Dead Yet! Reply to Stephen Drake

Charges Without Substance Not Dead Yet Fails to Defend Those Who Are Not Dead Yet Defending a Mother’s Decision Bioethics and the Medical Profession Who Represents People with Severe Intellectual Disabilities?

III - GLOBAL ETHICS

7 - Famine, Affluence, and Psychology

I II III IV VI VI VII

Reply to Judith Lichtenberg

Obligation and Charity Doing Good, Privately From Philosophy to Psychology

8 - What Do We Owe to Distant Needy Strangers?

Demanding Too Much? Allowing Personal Projects Following Common Sense? Further Anti-Singer Strategies Swallowing Singer’s Stone Distinguishing Moral Principles, Moral Codes, and Blameworthiness Reintroducing Options of a Sort Conclusion

Reply to Richard Arneson

Utilitarians and Close Personal Relationships Moral Intuitions and the Principle of Sacrifice The Role of a Moral Code

9 - Should Peter Singer Favor Massive Redistribution or Economic Growth?

I. Introduction II. Zero Discount Rates III. Economic Growth The Benefits of Growth What Role for Redistribution? III. Does Wealth Bring Greater Well-being? IV. Concluding Remarks REFERENCES

Reply to Tyler Cowen

What Do I Really Advocate? Discounting the Future, Markets, and Economic Growth Does Economic Growth Make Us Happier? Conclusion: Staying Open to the Evidence

10 - The Ethics of Assistance: What’s the Good of It?

What Is to Be Done? What Has Been Done Defining the Greatest Good

Reply to David Fagelson

Two Senses of Partiality

IV - ETHICAL THEORY

11 - Singer’s Unstable Meta-Ethics

1. Singer’s Meta-Ethics 2. The Content of Ethics 3. Why Be Moral? 4. The Methods of Ethics 5. A Revisionary Intuitionism? REFERENCES

Reply to Michael Huemer

My Ambivalence The Content of My Ethics Why Be Moral? Linking Morality and Motivation The Methods of Ethics How Revisionary an Intuitionism?

12 - Ph i losoph ical Presuppositions of Practical Ethics

0. Introduction 1. Singer and the Bioethical Debate 2. Singer in Germany: Some Remarks 3. Peter Singer’s Practical Ethics: A First Outline 4. The Principle of Equal Consideration of Interests 5. Speciesism and Sanctity of Life 6. International Justice and the Role of the State 7. Concluding Remarks REFERENCES

Reply to Marcus Düwell

Germany Revisited Equal Consideration of Interests and the Nature of Ethics “Human Dignity” and the Special Value of Human Life International Justice

13 - Separateness, Suffering, and Moral Theory

I. The Singer Principle II. SP Cannot Be Right The Symmetry Problem III. But How Can SP Be Wrong? IV. Respecting versus Promoting Elaborating the Game Theoretic Point V. Ethical Theory in an Ethical Life VI. The Nature of Moral Theory VII. Conclusion

Reply to David Schmidtz

A Dangerous Principle? Hypothetical Cases Western Civilizaton Is More than the Consumer Society Moral Theory and the Role of Reason Schmidtz’s Appeal to Our Intuitions Against the “Singer Principle”

14 - Singer on Moral Theory

1. The “Equal Consideration” Principle Killing/Letting Die; Harming/Not-Helping 2. Overridingness 3. Is Morality Rational ? 4. Universalizability and Foundations of Morals

Reply to Narveson

The “Equal Consideration” Principle Overridingness Is Morality Rational? Universalizability and Foundations of Morals

15 - Animal Liberationist Bites Dog Reply to Beryl Lieff Benderly

Thanks for the Advice, But . . .

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