Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
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Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory publishes original, international work and research of the highest scholarly quality in the areas of ethics and moral philosophy.
Living Ethics in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Eric Racine, Bénédicte D’Anjou, Caroline Favron-Godbout, Giulia Inguaggiato, Suzanne Metselaar, Gabriel Saso-Baudaux
December 01, 2025
This volume advances a new approach to ethics: “living ethics”. As an ethical and philosophical orientation, living ethics offers a refreshing perspective on how difficult human situations are opportunities for co-learning and co-creative ethical thinking. Living ethics starts with the observation ...
Public Health Virtue Ethics: Institutions, Structures, and Political Virtue for the Good Society
1st Edition
By Kathryn L. MacKay
November 03, 2025
This book argues that virtue ethics should be incorporated into public health ethics. It provides the theoretical foundations for a virtue ethics that is applicable to public health, as well as political institutions more broadly. Ethical analyses of public health policies and practices have been ...
Goodness and Tradition
1st Edition
By Irene Liu
October 31, 2025
This book investigates the importance of spirituality in moral life. The author claims that modern secular morality suffers from a lack of spirituality and argues that a solution to this problem can be found in tradition. Over several centuries, a process of secularization has loosened both the ...
Taking Moral Theorising Seriously: A Theory-First Approach to Moral Philosophy
1st Edition
By Andrew Sneddon
October 09, 2025
This book develops a plausible and novel account of methodology for moral philosophy. It focuses on the structural features of moral theories, specifically what is taken as input and the process of theorizing itself. Philosophers have long neglected the difficulties of identifying and using good ...
Rights-Based Ethics: Foundations and Applications
1st Edition
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By Marcus Düwell, Johannes Graf Keyserlingk, Philipp Richter
September 16, 2025
Rights-based ethics offer a conceptual framework to address the complex ethical issues of our time. This volume combines systematic and historical perspectives on rights-based ethics with discussions of a broad range of topics in applied ethics to assess the achievements and limits of rights-based ...
The Autonomy of Normativity: Logical and Metaphysical Interpretations of the Is-Ought-Gap
1st Edition
By Singa Behrens
August 15, 2025
While the Is-Ought Gap has recently been a topic of growing interest, most contributions are firmly fixed on logical, often quite technical accounts of the autonomy thesis. This book defends two complementary autonomy theses—a modal and ground-based thesis—that provide a deeper and more ...
What Is the Point of Moral Philosophy?
1st Edition
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By Roger Crisp, Ingmar Persson, Julian Savulescu
July 16, 2025
Over the last half-century, moral philosophy has taken an applied turn, covering practical issues in areas such as medicine, business, the environment, and many others. But it has largely failed to examine itself. In this volume, a range of distinguished contemporary ethicists, representing many ...
How We Blame: A Theory of Moral Responsibility
1st Edition
By Bana Bashour
July 08, 2025
This book presents a naturalistic account of moral responsibility that is neutral on the metaphysics of free will. It engages with empirical literature in experimental philosophy and psychology and draws on real-life case studies to illuminate the author’s theory of moral responsibility. The ...
A Phenomenological Analysis of Envy
1st Edition
By Michael Robert Kelly
June 27, 2025
This book provides a phenomenological analysis of envy. The author’s account takes a descriptive look at the whole experience of envy as it pertains to the envier’s sense of self and the envied. Philosophical work on envy has predominately focused on how the envier perceives, thinks about, or ...
Morality Collapses: Against the Right and the Good
1st Edition
By Stephen Kershnar
June 27, 2025
This book argues that consequentialism and non-consequentialism are false because they face metaphysical and intuitional problems. The two theories exhaust the theories of the right, so there is no rightness. This result matters because it requires us to give up widely held beliefs regarding ...
The Self, Civic Virtue, and Public Life: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Nancy E. Snow
May 27, 2025
This volume showcases new and interesting ways in which the possession of civic virtues can contribute to people’s abilities to engage in public life in meaningful ways. What is the role of civic virtues in public life? How does possessing civic virtues affect persons and their capacities for ...
Responsibility Collapses: Why Moral Responsibility is Impossible
1st Edition
By Stephen Kershnar
May 06, 2025
Our worldview assumes that people are morally responsible. Our emotions, beliefs, and values assume that a person is responsible for what she thinks and does, and that this is a good thing. This book argues that this worldview is false. It provides four arguments for this conclusion that build on ...