Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
LGBTQ+ Family-Making, Reproductive Ethics, and the (Re)Shaping of Family Values
1st Edition
By Amanda Roth
December 08, 2025
This book examines the ethical issues surrounding assisted reproductive technologies and queer family-making practices. By focusing on LGBTQ+ people and experiences in relation to procreative ethics, the book challenges dominant approaches and views in philosophical bioethics. In Part 1 of the ...
Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change: An Anticipatory Ethics Approach
1st Edition
By Jon Rueda
November 12, 2025
This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the anticipatory ethical issues associated with human genetic enhancement. It provides instructive clarifications for understanding the philosophy and science behind this long-standing bioethical debate, and identifies how genetic enhancement may ...
Human Freedom in the Age of AI
1st Edition
By Filippo Santoni de Sio
August 29, 2025
This book claims that artificial intelligence (AI) may affect our freedom at work, in our daily life, and in the political sphere. The author provides a philosophical framework to help make sense of and govern the ethical and political impact of AI in these domains. AI presents great opportunities ...
The Ethics of Digital Ghosts: Confucian, Mohist, and Zhuangist Perspectives on AI and Death
1st Edition
By Alexis M. Elder
August 15, 2025
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling the construction of “digital ghosts”: algorithmic reconstructions of deceased individuals based on patterns of interaction in their text messages, social media posts, and other personal data. This book develops an ethics of digital ghosts using ...
Paid Sexual Encounters among Men: A Study in Ethics and Law
1st Edition
By Timothy F. Murphy
August 14, 2025
This book analyzes the ethics of men buying and selling sex to one another. It gathers in one place key ethical and legal issues that bear on the justification for the criminalization of male prostitution. At present, prostitution – the solicitation or offer of paid sexual encounters – is ...
Procreative Justice: Balancing the Interests of Parents, Children, and Society
1st Edition
By Erik Magnusson
July 30, 2025
This book explores how considerations of justice apply to procreative decision-making. Despite its immense personal significance, procreation is an inherently other-regarding endeavor. By its very nature, the decision to procreate is the decision to bring into existence another morally considerable...
Ending Wars Justly: Theory and Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By David K. Chan
April 14, 2025
This volume features original essays on the ethics of ending wars (jus ex bello). It fills a significant gap in just war theory and sets the stage for other thinkers to engage with the topic. What makes questions about jus ex bello especially difficult for ethicists to answer is that the just war ...
A Philosophical Case for Ecological Pessimism
1st Edition
By Toby Svoboda
March 17, 2025
Our current ecological crisis—featuring problems such as climate change, ocean acidification, and mass extinction—raises various moral issues, including a high probability of injustice and massive harm. This book defends a position called ecological pessimism, an attitude whose core feature is the ...
New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Cheryl Abbate, Christopher Bobier
January 30, 2025
A growing number of animal ethicists defend new omnivorism—the view that it’s permissible, if not obligatory, to consume certain kinds of animal flesh and products. This book puts defenders of new omnivorism and advocates of strict veganism into conversation with one another to further debate in ...
Rethinking Informed Consent in the Big Data Age
1st Edition
By Adam J. Andreotta
December 23, 2024
In the “big data age”, providing informed consent online has never been more challenging. Countless companies collect and share our personal data through devices, apps, and websites, fuelling a growing data economy and the emergence of surveillance capitalism. Few of us have the time to read the ...
The Ethics of Drone Design: How Value-Sensitive Design Can Create Better Technologies
1st Edition
By Dylan Cawthorne
December 18, 2024
This book presents a holistic approach to the design and use of drones. It argues that this powerful technology requires high levels of ethical analysis and responsibility – our moral progress must keep pace with our technological progress. Drone technologies support and diminish the flourishing ...
Moral Challenges in a Pandemic Age
1st Edition
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By Evandro Barbosa
November 28, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic, whose consequences will be felt in the long term, can be interpreted as a signal that we have been living in a pandemic age. A pandemic is humanity's common ground, so the moral problems inherent in it are of interest to everyone from now on. It brought a set of ...