Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
Paid Sexual Encounters among Men: A Study in Ethics and Law
1st Edition
By Timothy F. Murphy
November 24, 2026
This book analyzes the ethics of men buying and selling sex to one another. It gathers in one place key ethical and legal issues that bear on the justification for the criminalization of male prostitution. At present, prostitution – the solicitation or offer of paid sexual encounters – is ...
The Ethics of Digital Ghosts: Confucian, Mohist, and Zhuangist Perspectives on AI and Death
1st Edition
By Alexis M. Elder
November 24, 2026
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are enabling the construction of “digital ghosts”: algorithmic reconstructions of deceased individuals based on patterns of interaction in their text messages, social media posts, and other personal data. This book develops an ethics of digital ghosts using ...
Procreative Justice: Balancing the Interests of Parents, Children, and Society
1st Edition
By Erik Magnusson
October 15, 2026
This book explores how considerations of justice apply to procreative decision-making. Despite its immense personal significance, procreation is an inherently other-regarding endeavor. By its very nature, the decision to procreate is the decision to bring into existence another morally considerable...
Infant Circumcision and Human Rights: A Test of Tolerance and Cultural Relativism
1st Edition
By Robert S. Van Howe
September 14, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive ethical examination of infant male circumcision through the lens of human rights theory. Drawing on over 30 years of clinical experience and extensive research, Robert S. Van Howe presents a systematic analysis of one of medicine's most controversial practices. ...
The Ethics and Epistemology of Vaccine Hesitancy
1st Edition
Edited
By Sven Bernecker, Tom Sorell
September 01, 2026
Philosophers have long discussed the ethical and epistemological issues raised by vaccines, but issues have assumed new significance since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume focuses on vaccine hesitancy as a case of deep overlap of ethics and epistemology. Vaccine hesitancy stems ...
A Philosophical Case for Ecological Pessimism
1st Edition
By Toby Svoboda
July 19, 2026
Our current ecological crisis—featuring problems such as climate change, ocean acidification, and mass extinction—raises various moral issues, including a high probability of injustice and massive harm. This book defends a position called ecological pessimism, an attitude whose core feature is the ...
Ending Wars Justly: Theory and Applications
1st Edition
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By David K. Chan
July 19, 2026
This volume features original essays on the ethics of ending wars (jus ex bello). It fills a significant gap in just war theory and sets the stage for other thinkers to engage with the topic. What makes questions about jus ex bello especially difficult for ethicists to answer is that the just war ...
The Good of Workplace Democracy: The Moral Case for a Cooperative Economy
1st Edition
By S. Stewart Braun
July 16, 2026
This book argues for workplace democracy on the grounds that it supports the development of fundamental human goods such as personal autonomy, self-development, and communal solidarity. Workplace democracy is an old, but reinvigorated, idea that business firms should be organized democratically. ...
Rethinking Informed Consent in the Big Data Age
1st Edition
By Adam J. Andreotta
May 21, 2026
In the “big data age”, providing informed consent online has never been more challenging. Countless companies collect and share our personal data through devices, apps, and websites, fuelling a growing data economy and the emergence of surveillance capitalism. Few of us have the time to read the ...
Virtue Theory and Video Games: Level Up Your Character
1st Edition
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By Sarah C. Malanowski, Nicholas R. Baima
March 19, 2026
This volume explores the intersection of virtue theory and video games. By bringing together emerging and established scholars analyzing video game ethics from a virtue-theoretical perspective, this book both fills gaps in the literature and provides a foundation for advancing discussions in the ...
LGBTQ+ Family-Making, Reproductive Ethics, and the (Re)Shaping of Family Values
1st Edition
By Amanda Roth
December 28, 2025
This book examines the ethical issues surrounding assisted reproductive technologies and queer family-making practices. By focusing on LGBTQ+ people and experiences in relation to procreative ethics, this book challenges dominant approaches and views in philosophical bioethics. In Part 1 of this ...
Ethics and Situational Crime Prevention
1st Edition
By Thomas Søbirk Petersen
December 25, 2025
This book addresses the ethics of Situational Crime Prevention (SCP). It seeks not only to analyse specific SCP measures but to demonstrate how ethical analysis can support and improve the implementation of SCP strategies. In ethically analysing a particular SCP measure, it is not enough to look at...