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.
Comparative Metaethics: Neglected Perspectives on the Foundations of Morality
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
Ethics and Self-Cultivation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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By Matthew Dennis, Sander Werkhoven
September 30, 2020
The aim of Ethics and Self-Cultivation is to establish and explore a new ‘cultivation of the self’ strand within contemporary moral philosophy. Although the revival of virtue ethics has helped reintroduce the eudaimonic tradition into mainstream philosophical debates, it has by and large been ...
Explaining Right and Wrong: A New Moral Pluralism and Its Implications
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By Benjamin Sachs
September 30, 2020
Explaining Right and Wrong aims to shake the foundations of contemporary ethics by showing that moral philosophers have been deploying a mistaken methodology in their efforts to figure out the truth about what we morally ought to do. Benjamin Sachs argues that moral theorizing makes sense only if ...
Kant and Parfit: The Groundwork of Morals
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By Husain Sarkar
September 30, 2020
Derek Parfit’s On What Matters is widely recognized as elegant, profound, and destined to change the landscape of moral philosophy. In Volume One, Parfit argues that the distinct—indeed, powerfully conflicting—theories of deontology and contractualism can be woven together in a way so as to yield ...
Methodology and Moral Philosophy
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By Jussi Suikkanen, Antti Kauppinen
September 30, 2020
Many ethicists either accept the reflective equilibrium method or think that anything goes in ethical theorizing as long as the results are plausible. The aim of this book is to advance methodological thinking in ethics beyond these common attitudes and to raise new methodological questions about ...