Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
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 ...
Ethics and Situational Crime Prevention
1st Edition
By Thomas Søbirk Petersen
July 25, 2024
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
July 24, 2024
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...
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
Edited
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
Edited
By Eric 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 ...
The Ethics of War and the Force of Law: A Modern Just War Theory
1st Edition
By Uwe Steinhoff
May 30, 2022
This book provides a thorough critical overview of the current debate on the ethics of war, as well as a modern just war theory that can give practical action-guidance by recognizing and explaining the moral force of widely accepted law. Traditionalist, Walzerian, and "revisionist" approaches have ...