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Nicholas Rescher’s interest in issues of social philosophy, now dating back over forty years, have resulted in four previous books: Distributive Justice (New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1966), Welfare: the Social Issues on Philosophical Perspective (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1972), Public Concerns (Lanham, MI: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), and Fairness (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2002). Additionally, however, he has during this time also written more than a dozen essays on various particular problems and issues of this domain—usually in response to the needs of some special occasion. The aim of the present volume is to collect this material together in coordinative conjunction. The resultant book will not only offer a panorama of Rescher’s views on some of the key issues of the field, but also convey a sense of the procedural ways and means by which Rescher think that philosophical deliberations can serve to shed some instructive light on such ever-controversial matters. For Rescher is convinced in theory and has sought to illustrate in practice that constructive thinking in this domain calls for implementing a quantitative approach from a moral perspective, and that neither the measurable quantities not the intangible values of the situation can be overlooked in a cogent assessment of the issues. It is his hope that these essays will confirm the justice of this conviction.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
Chapter 1:
TECHNOLOGY, COMPLEXITY, AND SOCIAL DECISION
Chapter 2:
RISKING DEMOCRACY
Chapter 3:
IS CONSENSUS REQUIRED FOR A RATIONAL SOCIAL ORDER?
Chapter 4:
MORALITY IN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Chapter 5:
ON THE RATIONALE OF GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION
Chapter 6:
SOCIAL WELFARE: SOME PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES
Chapter 7:
COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Chapter 8:
THE BELL CURVE REVISITED
Chapter 9:
IN THE LINE OF DUTY
Chapter 10:
TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS AND HUMAN HAPPINESS
Chapter 11:
THE SOCIAL VALUE OF A LIFE
Chapter 12:
THE ALLOCATION OF EXOTIC MEDICAL LIFESAVING THERAPY
Chapter 13:
ETHICAL ISSUES REGARDING THE DELIVERY OF HEALTH-CARE SERVICES
Chapter 14:
MORAL ISSUES RELATING TO THE ECONOMICS OF NEW KNOWLEDGE IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
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