Applying Ethics : A Text with Readings (with InfoTrac)
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Book Description
A perennial bestseller, APPLYING ETHICS introduces students to ethics via a well-proven formula of engaging commentary, seminal readings, and thought-provoking cases drawn from a wide range of contemporary social debates. Providing readers with a basic overview of the most important ethical theories in chapter one, each subsequent chapter takes a contemporary ethical issue as its focus. Guided by the authors' extensive introductions, and readings exhibiting divergent positions, and particularly timely cases, APPLYING ETHICS provides students with a model for considering critically many of the ethical dilemmas that abound in contemporary life.
About the Author
Jeffrey Olen is the author of PERSONS AND THEIR WORLD, ETHICS IN JOURNALISM, and MORAL FREEDOM, in addition to journal articles on a variety of topics. He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Temple University, the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, and Regis University-Colorado Springs. He lives with his wife and their chow mix in Chipita Park, Colorado. Julie C. Van Camp is Professor of Philosophy and the Pre-Law Advisor at California State University, Long Beach, where she teaches philosophy of law and applied ethics. She is the co-editor of APPLYING ETHICS EIGHTH EDITION, also published by Wadsworth. Along with a Ph.D. in philosophy from Temple University, she holds a J.D. from Georgetown University. She has been admitted to the State Bar of California and the District of Columbia Bar. Vincent Barry has been professor of philosophy at Bakersfield College for over thirty years. In addition to co-authoring MORAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS, he is the co-author of two other widely read Wadsworth publications?APPLYING ETHICS and INVITATION TO CRITICAL THINKING. His latest Wadsworth publication: THINKING PHILOSOPHICALLY ABOUT DEATH AND DYING will be published in 2006. Currently, he lives in Santa Barbara with his wife Jeannine and his young daughter Jen-Li Rose, whom he and his wife adopted in China in 1997.
Applying Ethics: A Text with Readings (with InfoTrac),Jeffrey Olen,Julie C. Van Camp,Vincent Barry,Wadsworth Publishing,0534626580,General,Philosophy,Social conditions,Social ethics,United States,Ethics & moral philosophy,Philosophy / General
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