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.
Morality Collapses: Against the Right and the Good
1st Edition
By Stephen Kershnar
June 26, 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 26, 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 05, 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 ...
Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality
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By Eric J. Silverman
May 05, 2025
This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics. The chapters examine the virtuous and vicious ways in which we relate to those close to us. There has long been a puzzle in ethics concerning the balance between our general moral obligations to everyone and our ...
The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch
1st Edition
By Mark Hopwood
April 30, 2025
The moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch said that philosophy “is both the guide and mirror of the age”. In this wide-ranging book Mark Hopwood explores the significance of Murdoch's philosophy in the present day, paying particular attention to her account of the role of metaphor and imagery...
Unfair Emotions: Their Morality and Blameworthiness
1st Edition
By Jonas Blatter
March 03, 2025
This book provides a novel philosophical account of the unfairness of certain emotions. It explains how the concept of unfairness can be applied to emotions and how emotions can be the proper objects of second-person moral evaluation. Emotions are an integral part of our moral practices. While the ...
Moral Thought Outside Moral Theory
1st Edition
By Craig Taylor
January 30, 2025
This book argues there can be no theory of ethics and that any attempt at such a theory ends up distorting the moral phenomena that it is supposed to explain. It presents clear examples of moral thought outside moral theorising through literature and Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. The book’s ...
Moral Injury and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Andrew I. Cohen, Kathryn McClymond
December 18, 2024
This book brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars to broaden and deepen the conversation about moral injury. In the original chapters, the contributors present new research to show how the humanities are crucial for understanding the expressions, meaning, and significance of moral injury...
Risk and Responsibility in Context
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By Adriana Placani, Stearns Broadhead
December 18, 2024
This volume bridges contemporary philosophical conceptions of risk and responsibility and offers an extensive examination of the topic. It shows that risk and responsibility combine in ways that give rise to new philosophical questions and problems. Philosophical interest in the relationship ...
Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy
1st Edition
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By Hugo Viciana, Antonio Gaitán, Fernando Aguiar
November 28, 2024
This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implementing experimental work on morality to new domains, problems, and topics. Philosophers are exploring ...
Moral Teleology: A Theory of Progress
1st Edition
By Hanno Sauer
November 28, 2024
This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable form of teleology can be defended. The book’s main aim is to flesh out the ...
The Guise of the Good: A Philosophical History
1st Edition
By Francesco Orsi
October 08, 2024
This is the first book to trace the doctrine of the guise of the good throughout the history of Western philosophy. It offers a chronological narrative exploring how the doctrine was formulated, the arguments for and against it, and the broader role it played in the thought of different ...