Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
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
Edited
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 ...
Human Enhancement and Well-Being: A Case for Optimism
1st Edition
By Emma C. Gordon
August 26, 2024
New technologies and medicines make it increasingly possible to enhance human functioning in new ways: to become smarter, more emotionally attuned, and perhaps even morally better. But just because we can use the latest science to improve ourselves, should we? This book has two main aims. First, it...
The Ethics of Agribusiness: Justice and Global Food in Focus
1st Edition
By Shane Epting
August 26, 2024
This book offers an original perspective on food supply chains. It argues that the ability to trade food on a global scale could be intrinsically good aside from any instrumental value that people gain from it. While the author’s argument seems to counter wholesale anti-agribusiness views, it is ...
The Ethics of Political Dissent
1st Edition
By Tony Milligan
August 26, 2024
A broadly liberal politics requires political compassion, not simply in the sense of compassion for the victims of injustice but also for opponents confronted through political protest and (more broadly) dissent. There are times when, out of a sense of compassion, a just cause should not be pressed...
Urban Enlightenment: Multistakeholder Engagement and the City
1st Edition
By Shane Epting
August 26, 2024
This book applies the concept of moral ordering to urban affairs. It demonstrates how multi-stakeholder engagement can enhance the quality of city life while supporting ambitions such as ethical urban sustainability and human flourishing. While there is a history of philosophers viewing cities as ...
What Kind of Death: The Ethics of Determining One’s Own Death
1st Edition
By Govert den Hartogh
August 26, 2024
Many books have been published about physician-assisted death. This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth examination of that subject, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death. In every ...
The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality: Building Worlds
1st Edition
By Erick Jose Ramirez
January 29, 2024
This book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR "presence" to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences. The author provides compelling evidence that VR ...
The Philosophy of Online Manipulation
1st Edition
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By Fleur Jongepier, Michael Klenk
January 29, 2024
Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online? This volume provides philosophical and conceptual depth to debates in ...
Why Conscience Matters: A Defence of Conscientious Objection in Healthcare
1st Edition
By Xavier Symons
October 02, 2023
The book provides a detailed introduction to a major debate in bioethics, as well as a rigorous account of the role of conscience in professional decision-making. Exploring the role of conscience in healthcare practice, this book offers fresh counterpoints to recent calls to ban or severely ...
Sexual Ethics in a Secular Age: Is There Still a Virtue of Chastity?
1st Edition
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By Eric J. Silverman
May 31, 2023
This collection features essays from top experts in ethics and philosophy of love that offer varying perspectives on the value of a contemporary secular virtue of chastity. The virtue of chastity has traditionally been portrayed as an excellent personal disposition concerning the ideal ordering of ...