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Kant and Applied Ethics makes an important contribution to Kant scholarship, illuminating the vital moral parameters of key ethical debates. Offers a critical analysis of Kant’s ethics, interrogating the theoretical bases of his theory and evaluating their strengths and weaknesses Examines the controversies surrounding the most important ethical discussions taking place today, including abortion, the death penalty, and same-sex marriage Joins innovative thinkers in contemporary Kantian scholarship, including Christine Korsgaard, Allen Wood, and Barbara Herman, in taking Kant’s philosophy in new and interesting directions Clarifies Kant's legacy for applied ethics, helping us to understand how these debates have been structured historically and providing us with the philosophical tools to address them

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This is a competent, clear, and evenhanded assessment of the relevance of Kant's thought for current moral debates. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. ( Choice , 1 October 2012) Kant and Applied Ethics is a stimulating attempt to assess the relevance of Kantian theory for contemporary moral problems. Kantian moral philosophers will find much to disagree with, but there is no doubt that the book raises important puzzles for Kantian moral theory. Those unpersuaded by Kantian theory may find ammunition to use against Kantianism. Those who wish to defend Kant's theory may find a helpful formulation of some serious challenges to Kant's moral philosophy. ( Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews , 30 June 2012)

Kant and Applied Ethics is a stimulating attempt to assess the relevance of Kantian theory for contemporary moral problems. Kantian moral philosophers will find much to disagree with, but there is no doubt that the book raises important puzzles for Kantian moral theory. Those unpersuaded by Kantian theory may find ammunition to use against Kantianism. Those who wish to defend Kant's theory may find a helpful formulation of some serious challenges to Kant's moral philosophy. ( Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews , 30 June 2012) This is a competent, clear, and evenhanded assessment of the relevance of Kant's thought for current moral debates. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. ( Choice , 1 October 2012) Kant and Applied Ethics is a stimulating attempt to assess the relevance of Kantian theory for contemporary moral problems. Kantian moral philosophers will find much to disagree with, but there is no doubt that the book raises important puzzles for Kantian moral theory. Those unpersuaded by Kantian theory may find ammunition to use against Kantianism. Those who wish to defend Kant's theory may find a helpful formulation of some serious challenges to Kant's moral philosophy. ( Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews , 30 June 2012)

This is a competent, clear, and evenhanded assessment of the relevance of Kant's thought for current moral debates. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty. ( Choice , 1 October 2012) Kant and Applied Ethics is a stimulating attempt to assess the relevance of Kantian theory for contemporary moral problems. Kantian moral philosophers will find much to disagree with, but there is no doubt that the book raises important puzzles for Kantian moral theory. Those unpersuaded by Kantian theory may find ammunition to use against Kantianism. Those who wish to defend Kant's theory may find a helpful formulation of some serious challenges to Kant's moral philosophy. ( Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews , 30 June 2012) Kant and Applied Ethics is a stimulating attempt to assess the relevance of Kantian theory for contemporary moral problems. Kantian moral philosophers will find much to disagree with, but there is no doubt that the book raises important puzzles for Kantian moral theory. Those unpersuaded by Kantian theory may find ammunition to use against Kantianism. Those who wish to defend Kant's theory may find a helpful formulation of some serious challenges to Kant's moral philosophy. ( Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews , 30 June 2012)

?Kant, in Altman?s artful hands, holds the key to solve some of the most intricate issues in applied ethics. Exegesis and philosophical imagination successfully combine in this appealing book.? ?Pablo Muchnik, Emerson College ?In Kant and Applied Ethics, Matthew Altman draws on a wide knowledge of Kant?s writings, including lesser-known texts, to bring Kantian insights to bear on a large range of different ethical problems from treatment of animals and respect for the environment to suicide and punishment and abortion. It will definitely be a valuable teaching tool. And it proves something that should be more widely recognized, namely, that applied ethics is just ethics, and applied philosophy is just philosophy.? ?Jeffrey Reiman, American University ?Kant and Applied Ethics is a stimulating attempt to assess the relevance of Kantian theory for contemporary moral problems. Kantian moral philosophers will find much to disagree with, but there is no doubt that the book raises important puzzles for Kantian moral theory. Those unpersuaded by Kantian theory may find ammunition to use against Kantianism. Those who wish to defend Kant's theory may find a helpful formulation of some serious challenges to Kant's moral philosophy.? ?Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews ?Altman is a reliable and sympathetic guide to Kantian positions on the most common issues in applied ethics, as well as an incisive critic who is candid about the limits of Kantian ethics.? ?Aaron Bunch, Washington State University

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Matthew C. Altman is an associate professor of philosophy and chair of the Philosophy & Religious Studies Department at Central Washington University. In addition to articles in ethics, applied ethics, and the history of philosophy, he is the author of A Companion to Kant's ""Critique of Pure Reason"" (2008), co-author of The Fractured Self in Freud and German Philosophy (2013), and editor of The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism (2014).

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