Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
Virtue Theory and Video Games: Level Up Your Character
1st Edition
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By Sarah C. Malanowski, Nicholas R. Baima
March 19, 2026
This volume explores the intersection of virtue theory and video games. By bringing together emerging and established scholars analyzing video game ethics from a virtue-theoretical perspective, this book both fills gaps in the literature and provides a foundation for advancing discussions in the ...
LGBTQ+ Family-Making, Reproductive Ethics, and the (Re)Shaping of Family Values
1st Edition
By Amanda Roth
December 28, 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, this book challenges dominant approaches and views in philosophical bioethics. In Part 1 of this ...
Ethics and Situational Crime Prevention
1st Edition
By Thomas Søbirk Petersen
December 25, 2025
This book addresses the ethics of Situational Crime Prevention (SCP). It seeks not only to analyse specific SCP measures but to demonstrate how ethical analysis can support and improve the implementation of SCP strategies. In ethically analysing a particular SCP measure, it is not enough to look at...
Procreative Responsibility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
1st Edition
By Davide Battisti
December 25, 2025
This book rethinks procreative responsibility considering the continuous development of Assisted Reproductive Technologies. It presents a person-affecting moral argument, highlighting that the potential availability of future Assisted Reproductive Technologies brings out new procreative obligations...
Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change: An Anticipatory Ethics Approach
1st Edition
By Jon Rueda
October 31, 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 14, 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 13, 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
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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 ...