Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
Corporate Responsibility and Political Philosophy: Exploring the Social Liberal Corporation
1st Edition
By Kristian Høyer Toft
August 29, 2022
This book argues for the inclusion of the corporation as an integral element of political philosophy. It begins with a historical evaluation of the corporation as a constituent of political society. It shows how Adam Smith, Hegel, and Marx conceived the role of the corporation in relation to the ...
Care Ethics and the Refugee Crisis: Emotions, Contestation, and Agency
1st Edition
By Marcia Morgan
June 13, 2022
This book advocates for the philosophical import of care in re-evaluating problems of humanitarianism in the context of the ongoing international refugee and forced migration situation. In doing so, it rethinks the human capacity to care about the suffering of distant others.At a time when ...
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 ...
Ethics and Error in Medicine
1st Edition
Edited
By Fritz Allhoff, Sandra Borden
September 30, 2021
This book is a collection of original, interdisciplinary essays on the topic of medical error. Given the complexities of understanding, preventing, and responding to medical error in ethically responsible ways, the scope of the book is fairly broad. The contributors include top scholars and ...
Ethics and Chronic Illness
1st Edition
By Tom Walker
June 30, 2021
This book provides an account of the ethics of chronic illness. Chronic illness differs from other illnesses in that it is often incurable, patients can live with it for many years, and its day-to-day management is typically carried out by the patient or members of their family. These features ...
Self-Defense, Necessity, and Punishment: A Philosophical Analysis
1st Edition
By Uwe Steinhoff
June 30, 2021
This book offers a philosophical analysis of the moral and legal justifications for the use of force. While the book focuses on the ethics self-defense, it also explores its relation to lesser evil justifications, public authority, the justification of punishment, and the ethics of war. Steinhoff’s...
The Ethics of Eating Animals: Usually Bad, Sometimes Wrong, Often Permissible
1st Edition
By Bob Fischer
June 30, 2021
Intensive animal agriculture wrongs many, many animals. Philosophers have argued, on this basis, that most people in wealthy Western contexts are morally obligated to avoid animal products. This book explains why the author thinks that’s mistaken. He reaches this negative conclusion by contending ...
The Future of Work, Technology, and Basic Income
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Cholbi, Michael Weber
June 30, 2021
Technological advances in computerization and robotics threaten to eliminate countless jobs from the labor market in the near future. These advances have reignited the debate about universal basic income. The essays in this collection offer unique and compelling perspectives on the ever-changing ...
Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy
1st Edition
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By Carl Fox, Joe Saunders
December 18, 2020
How we understand, protect, and discharge our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to the principle of political equality is intimately connected to the standards and behaviour of our media in general, and our news media in particular. However, the media does ...
The Capability Approach in Practice: A New Ethics in Setting Development Agendas
1st Edition
By Morten Fibieger Byskov
December 18, 2020
This book develops a philosophical framework for selecting goals for development purposes. This inclusive and democratic framework integrates a variety of resources including philosophical theory, empirical analysis, stakeholder deliberations, local knowledge, and advice from development experts. ...
The Ethics of Counterterrorism
1st Edition
By Isaac Taylor
September 30, 2020
States across the globe spend billions of dollars fighting terrorism annually. As well as strategic questions about the way in which the money should be spent, we are also confronted with a host of moral issues here, many of which are poorly understood. The Ethics of Counterterrorism offers the ...
Corporal Punishment: A Philosophical Assessment
1st Edition
By Patrick Lenta
August 14, 2020
The aim of this book is to assess the moral permissibility of corporal punishment and to enquire into whether or not it ought to be legally prohibited. Against the widespread view that corporal punishment is morally legitimate and should be legally permitted provided it falls short of abuse, ...