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.
Duties Regarding Nature: A Kantian Environmental Ethic
1st Edition
By Toby Svoboda
March 05, 2019
In this book, Toby Svoboda develops and defends a Kantian environmental virtue ethic, challenging the widely-held view that Kant's moral philosophy has little to offer environmental ethics. On the contrary, Svoboda contends that on Kantian grounds, there is good moral reason to care about...
Virtue’s Reasons: New Essays on Virtue, Character, and Reasons
1st Edition
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By Noell Birondo, S. Stewart Braun
March 05, 2019
Virtues and reasons are two of the most fruitful and important concepts in contemporary moral philosophy. Many writers have commented upon the close connection between virtues and reasons, but no one has done full justice to the complexity of this connection. It is generally recognized that the ...
Environmental Skill: Motivation, Knowledge, and the Possibility of a Non-Romantic Environmental Ethics
1st Edition
By Mark Coeckelbergh
August 14, 2018
Today it is widely recognized that we face urgent and serious environmental problems and we know much about them, yet we do very little. What explains this lack of motivation and change? Why is it so hard to change our lives? This book addresses this question by means of a philosophical inquiry ...
Moral Responsibility and the Problem of Many Hands
1st Edition
By Ibo van de Poel, Lambèr Royakkers, Sjoerd D. Zwart
August 14, 2018
When many people are involved in an activity, it is often difficult, if not impossible, to pinpoint who is morally responsible for what, a phenomenon known as the ‘problem of many hands.’ This term is increasingly used to describe problems with attributing individual responsibility in collective ...
The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species
1st Edition
By Ian A. Smith
June 14, 2018
Why save endangered species without clear aesthetic, economic, or ecosystemic value? This book takes on this challenging question through an account of the intrinsic goods of species. Ian A. Smith argues that a species’ intrinsic value stems from its ability to flourish—its organisms continuing to ...
The Limits of Moral Obligation: Moral Demandingness and Ought Implies Can
1st Edition
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By Marcel van Ackeren, Michael Kühler
June 14, 2018
This volume responds to the growing interest in finding explanations for why moral claims may lose their validity based on what they ask of their addressees. Two main ideas relate to that question: the moral demandingness objection and the principle "ought implies can." Though both of these ideas ...
Developing Moral Sensitivity
1st Edition
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By Deborah Mower, Wade L. Robison, Phyllis Vandenberg
February 12, 2018
Moral sensitivity affects whether and how we see others, note moral concerns, respond with delicacy, and navigate complex social interactions. Scholars from a variety of fields explore the concept of moral sensitivity and how it develops, beginning with a natural moral capacity for sensitivity ...
Defending Associative Duties
1st Edition
By Jonathan Seglow
November 28, 2017
This book explores the associative duties we owe to our children, parents, friends, colleagues, associates and compatriots and defends a novel account which justifies such duties through the realization of values that are produced in these various kinds of social relationships. Seglow engages with ...
Moral Exemplars in the Analects: The Good Person is That
1st Edition
By Amy Olberding
April 27, 2017
In this study, Olberding proposes a new theoretical model for reading the Analects. Her thesis is that the moral sensibility of the text derives from an effort to conceptually capture and articulate the features seen in exemplars, exemplars that are identified and admired pre-theoretically and thus...
Eudaimonic Ethics: The Philosophy and Psychology of Living Well
1st Edition
By Lorraine Besser
February 06, 2017
In this book, Lorraine Besser-Jones develops a eudaimonistic virtue ethics based on a psychological account of human nature. While her project maintains the fundamental features of the eudaimonistic virtue ethical framework—virtue, character, and well-being—she constructs these concepts from an ...
The Phenomenology of Moral Normativity
1st Edition
By William Smith
February 06, 2017
Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality’s claim on us—especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but ...
The Ethics of Vulnerability: A Feminist Analysis of Social Life and Practice
1st Edition
By Erinn Gilson
July 27, 2016
As concerns about violence, war, terrorism, sexuality, and embodiment have garnered attention in philosophy, the concept of vulnerability has become a shared reference point in these discussions. As a fundamental part of the human condition, vulnerability has significant ethical import: how one ...