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Rights Forfeiture and Punishment

Christopher Heath Wellman

Given that persons typically have a right not to be subjected to the hard treatment of punishment, it would seem natural to conclude that the permissibility of punishment is centrally a question of rights. Despite this, the vast majority of theorists working on...

Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics

Andrew I. Cohen , Christopher Heath Wellman

Now in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns. Revised and updated new...

Liberal Rights and Responsibilities

Christopher Heath Wellman

Debating the Ethics of Immigration

Phillip Cole , Christopher Heath Wellman

Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish? Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole develop and defend opposing answers to this timely and important...

A Liberal Theory of International Justice

Andrew Altman , Christopher Heath Wellman

A Liberal Theory of International Justice advances a novel theory of international justice that combines the orthodox liberal notion that the lives of individuals are what ultimately matter morally with the putatively antiliberal idea of an irreducibly collective right...

A Liberal Theory of International Justice

Andrew Altman , Christopher Heath Wellman

A Liberal Theory of International Justice advances a novel theory of international justice that combines the orthodox liberal notion that the lives of individuals are what ultimately matter morally with the putatively antiliberal idea of an irreducibly collective right...

A Companion to Applied Ethics

R. G. Frey , Christopher Heath Wellman

Applied or practical ethics is perhaps the largest growth area in philosophy today, and many issues in moral, social, and political life have come under philosophical scrutiny in recent years. Taken together, the essays in this volume – including two overview essays on...