Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. 1. Introduction: About David Braybrooke 1
5. Part One: Practical Engagement
6. 2. Teaching Class: Justice and Privatization in Education 23
7. 3. Determining Health Care Needs after the Human Genome Project: Reflections on Genetic Tests for Breast Cancer 51
8. 4. The Mutual Limitation of Needs as Bases of Moral Entitlements: A Solution to Braybrooke’s Problem 77
9. 5. Canadians and Global Beneficence: Human Security Revisited 101
10. 6. Braybrooke on Public Policy: Precautionary and Fair; Feasible and Ameliorative 125
11. 7. Life of Pi and the Existence of Tigers 165
12. Part Two: Theoretical Engagement
13. 8. David Braybrooke’s Philosophy of Social Science 193
14. 9. Empathy and Egoism 221
15. 10. The Problem of Moral Judgement 249
16. 11. Moral Claims and Epistemic Contexts 271
17. 12. Braybrooke and the Formal Structure of Moral Justification 301
18. 13. David Braybrooke on the Track of PPE 323
19. 14. Bootstrapping Norms: From Cause to Intention 343
20. Appendix A: Another–Literary–Side of David Braybrooke:The Comic Dialectician 365
21. Appendix B: David Braybrooke’s Publications 1955-2005 373
22. Notes on Contributors 387
23. References 391
24. Index 413