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James Rachels

Philosophy

#132

World Rank

#348

Historical Rank

#56

USA Rank

Logic

#4765

World Rank

#6094

Historical Rank

#827

USA Rank

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James Rachels's Degrees

PhD Philosophy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bachelors Philosophy Mercer University

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According to Wikipedia, James Webster Rachels was an American philosopher who specialized in ethics and animal rights. Biography Rachels was born in Columbus, Georgia, and graduated from Mercer University in 1962. He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying under W. D. Falk and E. M. Adams. He taught at the University of Richmond, New York University, the University of Miami, Duke University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he spent the last twenty-six years of his career. He married Carol Williams in 1962, and they had two sons, David and Stuart.

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Why privacy is important (1985) (498)
The Elements of Moral Philosophy (1986) (485)
Active and passive euthanasia. (1975) (407)
Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism (1990) (272)
The End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality (1986) (121)
The end of life (1986) (102)
The Elements of Moral Philosophy, 7th Ed (2012) (65)
Killing and Starving to Death (1979) (57)
The Right Thing To Do: Basic Readings in Moral Philosophy (1989) (37)
God and Human Attitudes (1971) (32)
Ethical Theory and Bioethics (2010) (30)
The Sanctity of Life (1983) (30)
Can ethics provide answers? (1996) (30)
Moral problems;: A collection of philosophical essays (1971) (22)
THE CHALLENGE OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM (2011) (22)
Darwin, Species, and Morality (1987) (20)
Philosophical Dimensions of Privacy: Why privacy is important (1984) (19)
Lives and liberty (1989) (17)
When philosophers shoot from the hip. (1992) (17)
Kantian theory: the idea of human dignity (1990) (16)
When philosophers shoot from the hip: a report from America. (1991) (14)
Barney Clark's key. (1983) (14)
Ethics : the classic readings (1998) (13)
Do Animals Have a Right to Life (1983) (10)
"Moral Philosophy as a Subversive Activity" (2002) (10)
Two arguments against ethical egoism (1974) (8)
Theories about how we should live (1998) (7)
The legacy of Socrates : essays in moral philosophy (2007) (6)
Moral Education in Public Schools (1982) (6)
Wanting and willing (1969) (5)
The principle of agency. (1998) (5)
The legacy of Socrates (2007) (4)
Medical Ethics and the Rule Against Killing: Comments on Professor Hare’s Paper (1977) (4)
Response to "An overview of the scientist's responsibilities: comments by an ethicist" (1978) (4)
Philosophical issues;: A contemporary introduction (1972) (4)
Ethics and the Bible (2002) (3)
On moral absolutism (1970) (2)
Evaluating from a point of view (1972) (2)
A report from America: Baby M. (1987) (2)
Chess as Art: Reflections on Richard Reti (1984) (2)
EUTHANASIA AND THE PHYSICIAN'S PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENTS (1984) (2)
REASONING ABOUT KILLING AND LETTING DIE (1981) (1)
Human Cloning (1998) (1)
Reasons for Action (1971) (1)
The Value of Human Life (2002) (1)
When does a person die? (1980) (1)
Wants, Reasons, and Justifications (1968) (1)
Problems of Philosophy (2011) (1)
The Confucian Self and our Duties to Animals (2012) (1)
Can the egoist have it both ways? (1978) (1)
The question of objectivity (1998) (1)
Active euthanasia with parental consent: commentary. (1979) (0)
Comments by an ethicist (1977) (0)
Ethics and the Future of Computing (2010) (0)
ETHICAL NON OBJECTIVISM: CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND ETHICAL SUBJECTIVISM (2004) (0)
Sociobiology and the ‘Escalator’ of Reason (1981) (0)
"Ordinary" and "extraordinary" vary with the case. (1983) (0)
An overview of the scientist's responsibilities: comments by an ethicist. (1977) (0)
The Truth about the World: Basic Readings in Philosophy (2004) (0)
Animal houses (1993) (0)
Letter to the editor (2007) (0)
Understanding moral philosophy (1976) (0)
Applications of Moral Philosophy (1974) (0)

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The Elements of Moral Philosophy