Philosophical Dialogues on Contemporary Problems uses a well-known form – at least as old as Socrates and his interlocutors – to deepen understanding of a range of today’s widely deliberated issues. Each volume includes an open dialogue between two or more fictional characters as they discuss and debate the empirical data and philosophical ideas underlying a problem in contemporary society. Students and other readers gain valuable, multiple perspectives on the problem at hand.
Each volume includes a foreword by a well-known philosopher, topic markers in the page margins, and an annotated bibliography.
By Nicholas Agar
September 14, 2023
We face an emerging range of technologies that can be applied to our human natures with the goal of enhancing us. There are nootropic smart drugs and gene editing that influence the development of the brain. The near future promises cybernetic technologies that can be grafted onto our brains and ...
By David DeGrazia
April 03, 2023
What happens when two intelligent American college students with different attitudes about guns launch into a careful exploration of the ethics of gun policy? What might a European exchange student add to the mix? All three characters in this book are fictional, the creation of author David ...
By Stephen M. Gardiner, Arthur Obst
September 26, 2022
Written both for general readers and college students, Dialogues on Climate Justice provides an engaging philosophical introduction to climate justice, and should be of interest to anyone wanting to think seriously about the climate crisis. The story follows the life and conversations of Hope, a ...
By Bertha Alvarez Manninen
May 17, 2022
What happens when two intelligent and highly informed fictional college students, one strongly pro-choice and the other vigorously pro-life, are asked to put together a presentation on abortion? Their conversations over five days – friendly but lively, charitable but clear – are captured in ...
By Michael Huemer
April 11, 2019
After lives filled with deep suffering, 74 billion animals are slaughtered worldwide every year on factory farms. Is it wrong to buy the products of this industry? In this book, two college students – a meat-eater and an ethical vegetarian – discuss this question in a series of dialogues ...