Engaged philosophy : essays in honour of David Braybrooke / edited by Susan Sherwin and Peter Schotch.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-411) and index.

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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: About David Braybrooke -- 1.1 David Braybrooke, the Personal Story -- 1.2 David Braybrooke, the Scholar -- 1.3 Overview of Essays -- 1.4 References -- PART ONE: PRACTICAL ENGAGEMENT -- 2 Teaching Class: Justice and Privatization in Education -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Privatization and Costs -- 2.3 Two Normative Contrasts -- 2.4 Education, Equality, and Choice -- 2.5 The Priority of Justice -- 2.6 Education as a Human Need -- 2.7 Fair Opportunity -- 2.8 Teaching Class

3 Determining Health Care Needs after the Human Genome Project: Reflections on Genetic Tests for Breast Cancer3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The World after the Human Genome Project -- 3.3 The Case for Treating BRCA Testing as a Need -- 3.4 Some Complicating Features of BRCA Testing -- 3.5 Towards a Relational Understanding of Needs -- 3.6 BRCA Testing Revisited -- 4 The Mutual Limitation of Needs as Bases of Moral Entitlements: A Solution to Braybrooke�s Problem -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Appeal of Needs -- 4.3 Braybrooke�s Problem

4.4 Possible Solutions to Braybrooke�s Problem5 Canadians and Global Beneficence: Human Security Revisited -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Ethics of State Responsibility -- 5.3 �Freedom from Fear� and �Freedom from Want� -- 5.4 The Ethics of Individual Responsibility -- 5.5 Rethinking Human Security -- 6 Braybrooke on Public Policy: Precautionary and Fair; Feasible and Ameliorative -- 6.1 Introduction to Braybrooke�s Strategy -- 6.2 Approaches to Making Public Policy -- 6.3 Braybrooke�s Citizen Management -- 6.4 Policy Applications Compared

6.5 Conclusion7 Life of Pi and the Existence of Tigers -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Author�s Note -- 7.3 Toronto and Pondicherry -- 7.4 A Digression on Belief -- 7.5 The Tiger in the Lifeboat -- 7.6 Ockham�s Razor -- 7.7 Ministry of Transport Investigators -- 7.8 Which Is the Better Story? -- 7.9 Is the Tiger REAL? -- PART TWO: THEORETICAL ENGAGEMENT -- 8 David Braybrooke�s Philosophy of Social Science -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Traditional Philosophy of Social Science -- 8.3 Braybrooke�s Contribution -- 8.4 Feminist Epistemologies

8.5 Conclusions9 Empathy and Egoism -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Sherman�s Account of Empathy -- 9.3 Default Egoism in Sherman -- 9.4 Imagining Empathic Selves -- 9.5 Moral Sentiment -- 9.6 Common Purpose and Relational Interests -- 9.7 Re-imagining the Self -- 10 The Problem of Moral Judgement -- 10.1 The Problem -- 10.2 Moral Realism: The Default Position -- 10.3 Externalist Moral Realism -- 10.4 Internalist Moral Realism -- 10.5 The Belief-Desire Theory of Moral Judgment -- 10.6 Two Objections Briefly Considered

Engaged Philosophy is an invaluable collection for anyone who has engaged with Braybrooke's writings or is interested in the future directions North American philosophy might take.

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