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Stephen M. Cahn
ISBN: 9780415938679
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
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An essential, updated guide to contemporary debate on affirmative action. Comprises nearly three decades of writing on the subject from the foundations to the up to the minute discussions.
This updated collection provides an essential guide to contemporary debate on affirmative action, often attacked as 'positive discrimination'. Useful for both students and general readers, it comprises nearly three decades of writing on the subject. Will be of interest to those in the fields of law, American history, politics and contemporary moral issues.
| ISBN | 0415938678 | | Pages | 256 | | ISBN13 | 9780415938679
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 408 | | Imprint | Routledge | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 22 Aug 2002 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | 2002072425 | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY | 177.5 | | Academic level | General, Undergraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Introduction by Steven M. Cahn | | | | 1 | | Discrimination and Morally Relevant Characteristics by James W. Nickel | | 3 | | 2 | | Inverse Discrimination by J. L. Cowan | | 5 | | 3 | | Reparations to Wronged Groups by Michael D. Bayles | | 8 | | 4 | | Reverse Discrimination and Compensatory Justice by Paul W. Taylor | | 11 | | 5 | | Reverse Discrimination by William A. Nunn III | | 17 | | 6 | | Should Reparations Be to Individuals or to Groups? by James W. Nickel | | 20 | | 7 | | Reparations to Individuals or Groups? by Alan H. Goldman | | 27 | | 8 | | What's Wrong with Discrimination? by Paul Woodruff | | 30 | | 9 | | Preferential Hiring by Judith Jarvis Thomson | | 35 | | 10 | | Preferential Hiring: A Reply to Judith Jarvis Thomson by Robert Simon | | 51 | | 11 | | Justifying Revere Discrimination in Employment by George Sher | | 58 | | 12 | | Preferential Hiring and Compensation by Robert K. Fullinwider | | 68 | | 13 | | Compensatory Justice: The Question of Costs by Robert Amdur | | 79 | | 14 | | Who Are Equals? by Carl Cohen | | 95 | | 15 | | Bakke's Case: Are Quotas Unfair? by Ronald Dworkin | | 103 | | 16 | | What Did Bakke Really Decide? by Ronald Dworkin | | 113 | | 17 | | Equality, Diversity, and Good Faith by Carl Cohen | | 124 | | 18 | | In Defense of Affirmative Action by Barbara R. Bergmann | | 145 | | 19 | | The Role Model Argument and Faculty Diversity by Anita L. Allen | | 153 | | 20 | | Proportional Representation of Women and Minorities by Celia Wolf-Devine | | 168 | | | More... | | |
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