Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
About the Book Series
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.
Apologies and Moral Repair: Rights, Duties, and Corrective Justice
1st Edition
By Andrew I. Cohen
August 01, 2022
This book argues that justice often governs apologies. Drawing on examples from literature, politics, and current events, Cohen presents a theory of apology as corrective offers. Many leading accounts of apology say much about what apologies do and why they are important. They stop short of ...
Cultivating Our Passionate Attachments
1st Edition
By Matthew J. Dennis
August 01, 2022
Does a flourishing life involve pursuing passionate attachments? Can we choose what these passionate attachments will be? This book offers an original theory of how we can actively cultivate our passionate attachments. The author argues that not only do we have reason to view passionate attachments...
Getting Our Act Together: A Theory of Collective Moral Obligations
1st Edition
By Anne Schwenkenbecher
August 01, 2022
Winner of the 2022 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award Together we can often achieve things that are impossible to do on our own. We can prevent something bad from happening, or we can produce something good, even if none of us could do it by ourselves. But when are we morally ...
Kantian and Sidgwickian Ethics: The Cosmos of Duty Above and the Moral Law Within
1st Edition
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By Tyler Paytas, Tim Henning
August 01, 2022
Immanuel Kant and Henry Sidgwick are towering figures in the history of moral philosophy. Kant’s views on ethics continue to be discussed and studied in detail not only in philosophy, but also theology, political science, and legal theory. Meanwhile, Sidgwick is emerging as the philosopher within ...
Offense and Offensiveness: A Philosophical Account
1st Edition
By Andrew Sneddon
August 01, 2022
This book offers a comprehensive study of the nature and significance of offense and offensiveness. It incorporates insights from moral philosophy and moral psychology to rationally reconstruct our ordinary ideas and assumptions about these notions. When someone claims that something is offensive, ...
Reason and Ethics: The Case Against Objective Value
1st Edition
By Joel Marks
August 01, 2022
Reason and Ethics defends the theoretical claim that all values are subjective and the practical claim that human affairs can be conducted fruitfully in full awareness of this. Joel Marks goes beyond his previous work defending moral skepticism to question the existence of all objective values. ...
The Authority of Virtue: Institutions and Character in the Good Society
1st Edition
By Tristan J. Rogers
August 01, 2022
This book provides a unified account of the connection between justice and the good life. It argues that the virtues of character require institutions, while good institutions enable persons to live together virtuously. Although virtue ethics and political philosophy are rich and sophisticated ...
Virtue, Narrative, and Self: Explorations of Character in the Philosophy of Mind and Action
1st Edition
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By Joseph Ulatowski, Liezl van Zyl
August 01, 2022
Virtue, Narrative, and Self connects two philosophical areas of study that have long been treated as distinct: virtue theory and narrative accounts of personal identity. Chapters address several important issues and neglected themes at the intersection of these research areas. Specific examples ...
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 ...