Jacquette Cannabis - Philosophy for Everyone

What Were We Just Talking About?
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4139-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Philosophy for Everyone

The debate on the status and legality of cannabis continues to gainmomentum. Here, personal anecdotes combined with academic andscientific reports combine to sharpen some of the fascinatingphilosophical issues associated with cannabis use.
* A frank, professionally informed and playful discussion ofcannabis usage in relation to philosophical inquiry
* Considers the meaning of a 'high', the morality ofsmoking marijuana for pleasure, the slippery slope to moredangerous drugs, and the human drive to alter ourconsciousness
* Not only incorporates contributions from philosophers,psychologists, sociologists or legal, pharmacological, and medicalexperts, but also non-academics associated with the cultivation,distribution, and sale of cannabis
* Brings together an international team of writers from theUnited States, Canada, UK, Finland, Switzerland, South Africa, andNew Zealand

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacquette, Dale

Weitere Mitwirkende

Allhoff, Fritz

Cusick, Rick

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword (Richard Cusick).
Preface (Dale Jacquette).
Introduction: What is Cannabis and How Can We Get Some?(Dale Jacquette).
PART I CANNABIS PHENOMENOLOGY.
1 A Cannabis Odyssey (Lester Grinspoon).
2 Seeing Snakes: On Delusion, Knowledge, and the DrugExperience (G. T. Roche).
3 The Cannabis Experience: An Analysis of "Flow"(Andrew D. Hathaway and Justin Sharpley).
PART II MARIJUANA AND SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT.
4 Buzz, High, and Stoned: Metaphor, Meaning, and the CannabisExperience (Michael Montagne).
5 The Great Escape (Charles Taliaferro and Michel LeGall).
6 Cannabis and the Human Condition: "Something of the Kind isIndispensable"(Brian R. Clack).
PART III CREATIVELY HIGH.
7 Hallucinatory Terror: The World of the Hashish Eater(Tommi Kakko).
8 Marijuana and Creativity (Ryan E. Holt and James C.Kaufman).
9 Navigating Creative Inner Space on the Innocent Pleasures ofHashish (Dale Jacquette).
PART IV PSYCHO-SOCIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF CANNABISCULTURE.
10 Cannabis and the Culture of Alienation (MarkThorsby).
11 Reefer Madness: Cannabis, the Individual, and PublicPolicy (Tuomas E. Tahko).
12 Soft vs. Hard: Why Drugs are Not Like Eggs (BrianPenrose).
PART V CANNABIS ETHICS AND POLITICS.
13 "Smoking Pot Doesn't Hurt Anyone But Me!" Why AdultsShould be Allowed to Consume Cannabis (Jack Green Musselman,Russ Frohardt, and D. G. Lynch).
14 Pot Politics: Prohibition and Morality (MitchEarleywine).
15 Cannabis and the Good Life: Needs, Capabilities, and HumanFlourishing (Theodore Schick, Jr.)
16 Weakness of Will: The Cannabis Connection (MichaelFunke).
Notes on Contributors.

Über Autor(innen)

Editor
Dale Jacquette is Senior Professorial Chair inTheoretical Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Hismany previous works include Wittgenstein's Thought inTransition (1998), Ontology (2002), DavidHume's Critique of Infinity (2001), and The Philosophyof Schopenhauer (2005). He has edited the BlackwellCompanion to Philosophical Logic (2002), the CambridgeCompanion to Brentano (2004), and the Elsevier volume onPhilosophy of Logic (2006) in the Handbook of the Philosophyof Science series.
Series Editor
Fritz Allhoff is an Assistant Professor in thePhilosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as aSenior Research Fellow at the Australian NationalUniversity's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series,Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles,including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007),Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley,2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe,Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).