Unsanctifying Human Life: Essays on Ethics

Part I: From Philosophical to Practical Ethics:.

1. The Triviality of the Debate over "Is-Ought" and the Definition of "Moral": Peter Singer.

2. Sidgwick and Reflective Equilibrium: Peter Singer.

Part II: The Role of Philosophers:.

3. Philosophers are Back on the Job: Peter Singer.

4. Bioethics and Academic Freedom: Peter Singer.

Part III: The Idea of Equality:.

5. All Animals are Equal: Peter Singer.

6. Is Racial Discrimination Arbitrary?: Peter Singer.

7. Killing Humans and Killing Animals: Peter Singer.

8. To Do or Not to Do?: Peter Singer.

9. The Great Ape Project: Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer.

Part IV: The Impartial Point of View:.

10. Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Peter Singer.

11. William Godwin and the Defense of Impartialist Ethics: Peter Singer, Leslie Cannold, and Helga Kuhse.

Part V: Unsanctifying Human Life:.

12. The Moral Status of the Embryo: Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer.

13. Individuals, Humans, and Persons: The Issue of Moral Status: Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer.

14. IVF Technology and the Argument from Potential: Peter Singer and Karen Dawson.

15. Unsanctifying Human Life: Peter Singer.

16. Should All Seriously Disabled Infants Live?: Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer.

17. Is the Sanctity of Life Ethic Terminally Ill?: Peter Singer.

Part VI: Choosing Between Lives:.

18. Allocating Health Care Resources and the Problem of the Value of Life: Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer.

19. Double Jeopardy and the Use of QALYs in Health Care Allocation: Peter Singer, John McKie, Helga Kuhse, and Jeff Richardson.

Part VII: How We Should Live:.

20. A Vegetarian Philosophy: Peter Singer.

21. Environmental Values: Peter Singer.

22. Coping with Global Change: The Need for Different Values: Peter Singer.

Part VIII: Move Over, Marx:.

23. Hegel and Marx - Dialogue with Peter Singer: Bryan Magee.

24. Darwin for the Left: Peter Singer.

Peter Singer: Selected Publications, 1970–2000.

Index.