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Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy

Edited by the Philosophy Faculty, Bowling Green State University

The eight volumes in this series explore the philosophical implications of social problems whose solutions require rational planning and decision making. The series was produced as part of an effort by the philosophy department at Bowling Green State University to develop an understanding of "applied" philosophy as a tool for addressing life problems that confront individuals and society on a daily basis. Unlike pure philosophy, the ultimate concern of applied philosophy is with the implications of theory for human action. Annual conferences were held at Bowling Green from 1979 to 1986 to examine various metaphysical, epistemological and ethical issues in applied philosophy, and a selection of the papers presented at each conference was assembled for each volume. These volumes were published by the Applied Philosophy Program at Bowling Green State University with the support of the Philosophy Documentation Center.

Contributors to the series include Frithjof Bergmann, Myles Brand, David Hoekema, Jaegwon Kim, Joseph Margolis, Jan Narveson, Douglas Rasmussen, Nicholas Rescher, Robert Solomon, James Sterba and Iris Young. The tables of contents of all eight volumes are listed below. Electronic access to the fulltext of all volumes in the series is provided through POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials.

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  1. Preface
  2. Frithjof Bergmann  A Monologue on the Emotions
  3. Robert C. Solomon  Nothing to be Proud Of
  4. Kevin Donaghy  Emotions without Judgement
  5. Peter K. McInerney  Emotions and Motivations
  6. Terry Pence  Metaphysical Lunacy and Emotion
  7. Joseph Margolis  The Relevance of the Emotions for Medicine
  8. Páll Árdal  Of Sympathetic Imagination
  9. Marilyn Holly  Suicide and Reflective Grief
  10. Lester H. Hunt  Punishment, Revenge, and the Minimal Functions of the State
  11. Holmes Rolston III  Nature and Human Emotions
  12. Louis I. Katzner  Applied Philosophy

  1. Preface
  2. Myles Brand  Philosophical Action Theory and the Foundation of Motivational Psychology
  3. Jaegwon Kim  The Role of Intention in Motivational Psychology: Comments on Brand
  4. Myles Brand  A Brief Reply to Kim
  5. Peter van Inwagen  The Incompatibility of Responsibility and Determinism
  6. Bernard Berofsky  The Irrelevance of Morality to Freedom
  7. Bruce Vermazen  Occurent and Standing Wants"
  8. Lawrence H. Davis  Wayward Causal Chains
  9. Michael Robins  On Prichard Revisited: Comments on Davis
  10. Monroe Beardsley  Motives and Intentions
  11. Hector-Neri Castaneda  The Doing of Thinking: Intending and Willing
  12. Bart Gruzalski  Taking Full Responsibility for Causing Patients to Die
  13. Bonnie Steinbock  Causing Death and Allowing to Starve
  14. Dan W. Brock  Moral Prohibitions and Consent
  15. Edmund Byrne  After 'Mental Illness' What? A Philosophical Endorsement of Statuatory Reform
  16. Lowell Yarusso  Some Implications of the Assumptions Behind Federal Policy
  17. John R. Danley  Corporate Moral Agency: The Case for Anthropological Bigotry

  1. Preface
  2. Kenneth Sayre  Pure and Applied Reasoning
  3. Michael Bradie  Comments on Sayre
  4. Steven J. Brams  A Resolution of the Paradox of Omniscience
  5. Adele E. Laslie  Betting Rates and Rational Choice
  6. Paul Thagard  Beyond Utility Theory
  7. Robert P. McArthur  Defeasibility and Conditional Obligation
  8. George Mavrodes  Belief, Proportionality and Probability
  9. Paul Weirich  Decision when Desires are Uncertain
  10. Kenneth R. Hammond  A Plea for Philosophers' Direct Participation in the Policy Formation Process
  11. Raymond Dacey  Detection, Inference and the Arms Race
  12. William H. Shaw  Prisoners, Proletarians and Paradox
  13. Nicholas Rescher  The Social Value of a Life
  14. Ronald Giere  Technological Decision Making

  1. Preface
  2. David Braybrooke  Making Justice Practical
  3. James P. Sterba  Some Problems with 'Making Justice Practical'
  4. David Braybrooke  Rejoinder to Sterba
  5. James S. Fishkin  Justice and Equal Opportunity
  6. Michael McDonald  Justice in Hard Times
  7. Sidney Axinn  The Collective Sense of Equal Protection of the Laws
  8. Jennifer Hochschild  Justice, the Poor, and the Redistribution of Wealth
  9. Christopher W. Morris  A Non-Egalitarian Defense of Redistribution
  10. Hugo Adam Bedau  Social Justice-What is it and Why it Matters
  11. Andrew Altman  Justice, Epistemology and Ethical Compromise
  12. Laurence Thomas  Law, Morality, and our Psychological Nature
  13. Ferdinand Schoeman  The Social Theory of Rights
  14. David A. Hoekema  Two Dogmas about Taxation
  15. Brian Schrag  The Distribution of Primary Care Physicians
  16. Hardy Jones  Must One Have the Consent of an Organ Donor?

  1. Preface
  2. Nicholas Rescher  Problems in Applying Philosophy
  3. James F. Day  Some Reflections on Prof. Rescher's Paper
  4. Jude P. Dougherty  The Relevance of the Inherited: Philosophy as Science
  5. Mike W. Martin  Applied and General Ethics: Family Resemblances and Tensions
  6. Walter A. Shelburne  The Holistic Attitude in Philosophy
  7. Robert Wachbroit  Ethics and Professionalism
  8. Arleen B. Dallery  Professional Loyalties
  9. Hugh LaFollette  Applied Philosophy Misapplied
  10. Lisa Portmess  Philosophy and International Affairs
  11. David A. Hoekema  Intentionality, Threats, and Nuclear Deterrence
  12. William Aiken  Subsistence versus Affluence
  13. David C. Thomasma  The Role of the Clinical Medical Ethicist: The Problem of Applied Ethics and Medicine
  14. Sara Ebenreck  Philosophizing in the Marketplace of Washington D.C.
  15. Iris M. Young  Justice and Hazardous Waste

  1. Preface
  2. R.G. Frey  Conflict and Resolution: On Values and Trade Offs
  3. Donald Scherer  Some Simple Rational Conflict Resolution: Procedures For Incommensurable Values
  4. Henry West  The Concept of Justice and Concept Resolution
  5. George Stein  Social Philosophy, National Socialism, and the Scarcity Society
  6. William Aiken  Using Food as a Weapon
  7. James P. Sterba  National Defense vs. Social Welfare
  8. Edmund Byrne  Displaced Workers: Whose Responsibility?
  9. Jan Narveson  Full Employment: The Supreme Economic Priority
  10. Onora O'Neill  How Can We Individuate Moral Problems?
  11. Bill Puka  The Savings Approach to Moral Conflict
  12. Tom Regan  Honey Dribbles Down Your Fur: Remarks on Environmental Ethics
  13. Maura O'Brien  The Evolving Antitrust Regulation of the Professions
  14. John Snapper  Limits on the Standards of Private Associations
  15. Robert Strikwerda  On What Ought We Vote? On Professional Organizations and Public Affairs

  1. Preface
  2. John Gray  Liberalism and the Choice of Liberties
  3. Douglas B. Rasmussen  Liberalism, Contractarianism, and the Choice of Liberties: A Response to Gray
  4. Fred R. Berger  Paternalism and Autonomy
  5. Timothy Beatley  Paternalism and Land Use Planning: Ethical Bases and Practical Applications
  6. Gary E. Jones  Is There a Right to Paternalism?
  7. Russell Hardin  Collective Rights
  8. Christopher W. Morris  Natural Rights and Public Goods
  9. Marvin C. Henberg  Swords into Plowshares: Liberty, Security and the Environment
  10. Allen Buchanan  Competition, Charity and the Right to Health Care
  11. Jeffrey Obler  Liberty, Duty and the Welfare State
  12. Jonathan Riley  Liberty, Paternalism and Justice
  13. James S. Fishkin  Justifying Liberty: The Self-Reflective Argument
  14. Daniel M. Farrell  Legitimate Government and Consent of the Governed
  15. Robert W. Westmoreland  Liberty or Liberties?

  1. Preface
  2. L.W. Sumner  Subjectivity and Moral Standing
  3. Christopher Morris  Value Subjectivism, Individualism and Moral Standing
  4. L.W. Sumner  A Response to Morris
  5. James Griffin  How Anthropocentric is our Notion of Rights?
  6. Anthony Weston  Towards in Inclusive Ethics
  7. Richard Lee  Goodness and the Will
  8. E.J. Bond  Morality and Community
  9. Larry May  The Moral Interests of Social Groups
  10. Jan Narveson  A Contractarian Defense of the Liberal View on Abortion and the Wrongness of Infanticide
  11. Holmes Rolston III  The Human Standing in Nature: Fitness in the Moral Overseer
  12. Gerald H. Paske  The Moral Priority of (Most) Human Beings
  13. Eric Katz  Buffalo-Killing and the Valuation of Species
  14. R.G. Frey  Autonomy and Conceptions of the Good Life
  15. Michael Wreen  The Possibility of Potentiality
  16. Robert B. Hallborg, Jr.  The Exploitation of Human Death

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