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.
An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility
1st Edition
By Michelle Ciurria
June 13, 2022
This book develops an intersectional feminist approach to moral responsibility. It accomplisheses four main goals. First, it outlines a concise list of the main principles of intersectional feminism. Second, it uses these principles to critique prevailing philosophical theories of moral ...
Morality in a Realistic Spirit: Essays for Cora Diamond
1st Edition
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By Andrew Gleeson, Craig Taylor
September 30, 2021
This unique collection of essays has two main purposes. The first is to honour the pioneering work of Cora Diamond, one of the most important living moral philosophers and certainly the most important working in the tradition inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The second is to develop and deepen a ...
Perspectives in Role Ethics: Virtues, Reasons, and Obligation
1st Edition
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By Tim Dare, Christine Swanton
September 30, 2021
Although our moral lives would be unrecognisable without them, roles have received little attention from analytic moral philosophers. Roles are central to our lives and to our engagement with one another, and should be analysed in connection with our core notions of ethics such as virtue, reason, ...
Self, Motivation, and Virtue: Innovative Interdisciplinary Research
1st Edition
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By Nancy E. Snow, Darcia Narvaez
September 30, 2021
This volume features new findings by nine interdisciplinary teams of researchers on the topics of self, motivation, and virtue. Nine chapters bringing together scholars from the fields of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and sociology advance our substantive understanding of these important ...
Comparative Metaethics: Neglected Perspectives on the Foundations of Morality
1st Edition
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By Colin Marshall
June 30, 2021
This collection of original essays explores metaethical views from outside the mainstream European tradition. The guiding motivation is that important discussions about the ultimate nature of morality can be found far beyond ancient Greece and modern Europe. The volume’s aim is to show how rich the...
Ethics in the Wake of Wittgenstein
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By Benjamin De Mesel, Oskari Kuusela
June 30, 2021
This book brings together essays from leading scholars who, rather than taking a strictly exegetical approach, attempt to show how discussions in moral philosophy can benefit from Wittgenstein’s later philosophical work. The essays in this volume make the argument that Wittgenstein’s relevance for ...
Moral Rights and Their Grounds
1st Edition
By David Alm
June 30, 2021
Moral Rights and Their Grounds offers a novel theory of rights based on two distinct views. The first—the value view of rights—argues that for a person to have a right is to be valuable in a certain way, or to have a value property. This special type of value is in turn identified by the reasons ...
Philosophical Perspectives on Empathy: Theoretical Approaches and Emerging Challenges
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By Derek Matravers, Anik Waldow
June 30, 2021
Empathy—our capacity to cognitively or affectively connect with other people’s thoughts and feelings—is a concept whose definition and meaning varies widely within philosophy and other disciplines. Philosophical Perspectives on Empathy advances research on the nature and function of empathy by ...
Putting Others First: The Christian Ideal of Others-Centeredness
1st Edition
By T. Ryan Byerly
June 30, 2021
When deciding what to do, is it best to treat one’s own interests as more important than the interests of others, others’ interests as more important than one’s own, or one’s own and others’ interests as equally important? This book develops an account of others-centeredness, a way of putting ...
Moral Reality and the Empirical Sciences
1st Edition
By Thomas Pölzler
December 18, 2020
Are there objective moral truths (things that are morally right or wrong independently of what anybody thinks about them)? To answer this question more and more scholars have recently begun to appeal to evidence from scientific disciplines such as psychology, neuroscience, biology, and anthropology...
Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology
1st Edition
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By Jennifer A. Frey, Candace Vogler
December 18, 2020
Recent research in the humanities and social sciences suggests that individuals who understand themselves as belonging to something greater than the self—a family, community, or religious or spiritual group—often feel happier, have a deeper sense of purpose or meaning in their lives, and have ...
Determined by Reasons: A Competence Account of Acting for a Normative Reason
1st Edition
By Susanne Mantel
September 30, 2020
This book offers a new account of what it is to act for a normative reason. The first part of the book introduces some popular ideas and problems concerning causal and dispositional approaches of acting for reasons. The author argues that the dispositional approach should take a certain form that ...