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.
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 ...
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
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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
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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
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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 ...
The Making of the Good Person: Self-Help, Ethics and Philosophy
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By Nora Hämäläinen
October 07, 2024
This book provides a philosophical assessment of the idea of personhood advanced in popular self-help literature. It also traces, within academic philosophy and philosophical scholarship, a self-help culture where the self is brought forth as an object of improvement and a key to meaning, progress,...
Acts, Intentions, and Moral Evaluation
1st Edition
By Craig M. White
August 26, 2024
This book argues that the moral quality of an act comes from the agent’s inner states. By arguing for the indispensable relevance of intention in the moral evaluation of acts, the book moves against a mainstream, "objective" approach in normative ethics. It is commonly held that the intentions, ...
A Philosophical Defense of Misanthropy
1st Edition
By Toby Svoboda
May 27, 2024
This book argues that it can be both reasonable and appropriate to adopt a certain kind of misanthropy. The author defends a cognitivist version of misanthropy, an attitude whose central feature is the judgment that humanity is morally bad. Misanthropy is often dismissed on moral grounds. Many ...
From Value to Rightness: Consequentialism, Action-Guidance, and the Perspective-Dependence of Moral Duties
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By Vuko Andrić
May 27, 2024
This book develops an original version of act-consequentialism. It argues that act-consequentialists should adopt a subjective criterion of rightness. The book develops new arguments which strongly suggest that, according to the best version of act-consequentialism, the rightness of actions depends...