Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
The Injustice of Punishment
1st Edition
By Bruce N. Waller
August 14, 2020
The Injustice of Punishment emphasizes that we can never make sense of moral responsibility while also acknowledging that punishment is sometimes unavoidable. Recognizing both the injustice and the necessity of punishment is painful but also beneficial. It motivates us to find effective means of ...
Disability with Dignity: Justice, Human Rights and Equal Status
1st Edition
By Linda Barclay
June 30, 2020
Philosophical interest in disability is rapidly expanding. Philosophers are beginning to grasp the complexity of disability—as a category, with respect to well-being and as a marker of identity. However, the philosophical literature on justice and human rights has often been limited in scope and ...
The Ethics of Climate Engineering: Solar Radiation Management and Non-Ideal Justice
1st Edition
By Toby Svoboda
June 30, 2020
This book analyzes major ethical issues surrounding the use of climate engineering, particularly solar radiation management (SRM) techniques, which have the potential to reduce some risks of anthropogenic climate change but also carry their own risks of harm and injustice. The book argues that we ...
Does the Pro-Life Worldview Make Sense?: Abortion, Hell, and Violence Against Abortion Doctors
1st Edition
By Stephen Kershnar
December 10, 2019
This book looks at a family of views involving the pro-life view of abortion and Christianity. These issues are important because major religious branches (for example, Catholicism and some large branches of Evangelicalism) and leading politicians assert, or are committed to, the following: (a) it ...
Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves
1st Edition
By Alexis M. Elder
December 10, 2019
Various emerging technologies, from social robotics to social media, appeal to our desire for social interactions, while avoiding some of the risks and costs of face-to-face human interaction. But can they offer us real friendship? In this book, Alexis Elder outlines a theory of friendship drawing ...
Hobbesian Applied Ethics and Public Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Shane D. Courtland
December 10, 2019
Most philosophers and political scientists readily admit that Thomas Hobbes is a significant figure in the history of political thought. His theory was, arguably, one of the first to provide a justification for political legitimacy from the perspective of each individual subject. Many excellent ...
Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine Straehle
December 10, 2019
Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself—what it is and why it is morally salient—is under-theorized. Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics brings together theorists working on ...
Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights: Ethical and Philosophical Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Jaime Ahlberg, Michael Cholbi
March 05, 2019
Procreation, Parenthood, and Educational Rights explores important issues at the nexus of two burgeoning areas within moral and social philosophy: procreative ethics and parental rights. Surprisingly, there has been comparatively little scholarly engagement across these subdisciplinary boundaries, ...
Refugees and the Ethics of Forced Displacement
1st Edition
By Serena Parekh
August 14, 2018
This book is a philosophical analysis of the ethical treatment of refugees and stateless people, a group of people who, though extremely important politically, have been greatly under theorized philosophically. The limited philosophical discussion of refugees by philosophers focuses narrowly on the...