Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
Ending Wars Justly: Theory and Applications
1st Edition
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By David K. Chan
April 14, 2025
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 ...
A Philosophical Case for Ecological Pessimism
1st Edition
By Toby Svoboda
March 17, 2025
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 ...
New Omnivorism and Strict Veganism: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Cheryl Abbate, Christopher Bobier
January 30, 2025
A growing number of animal ethicists defend new omnivorism—the view that it’s permissible, if not obligatory, to consume certain kinds of animal flesh and products. This book puts defenders of new omnivorism and advocates of strict veganism into conversation with one another to further debate in ...
The Ethics of Drone Design: How Value-Sensitive Design Can Create Better Technologies
1st Edition
By Dylan Cawthorne
December 18, 2024
This book presents a holistic approach to the design and use of drones. It argues that this powerful technology requires high levels of ethical analysis and responsibility – our moral progress must keep pace with our technological progress. Drone technologies support and diminish the flourishing ...
Moral Challenges in a Pandemic Age
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By Evandro Barbosa
November 28, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic, whose consequences will be felt in the long term, can be interpreted as a signal that we have been living in a pandemic age. A pandemic is humanity's common ground, so the moral problems inherent in it are of interest to everyone from now on. It brought a set of ...
Human Enhancement and Well-Being: A Case for Optimism
1st Edition
By Emma C. Gordon
August 26, 2024
New technologies and medicines make it increasingly possible to enhance human functioning in new ways: to become smarter, more emotionally attuned, and perhaps even morally better. But just because we can use the latest science to improve ourselves, should we? This book has two main aims. First, it...
The Ethics of Agribusiness: Justice and Global Food in Focus
1st Edition
By Shane Epting
August 26, 2024
This book offers an original perspective on food supply chains. It argues that the ability to trade food on a global scale could be intrinsically good aside from any instrumental value that people gain from it. While the author’s argument seems to counter wholesale anti-agribusiness views, it is ...
The Ethics of Political Dissent
1st Edition
By Tony Milligan
August 26, 2024
A broadly liberal politics requires political compassion, not simply in the sense of compassion for the victims of injustice but also for opponents confronted through political protest and (more broadly) dissent. There are times when, out of a sense of compassion, a just cause should not be pressed...
Urban Enlightenment: Multistakeholder Engagement and the City
1st Edition
By Shane Epting
August 26, 2024
This book applies the concept of moral ordering to urban affairs. It demonstrates how multi-stakeholder engagement can enhance the quality of city life while supporting ambitions such as ethical urban sustainability and human flourishing. While there is a history of philosophers viewing cities as ...
What Kind of Death: The Ethics of Determining One’s Own Death
1st Edition
By Govert den Hartogh
August 26, 2024
Many books have been published about physician-assisted death. This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth examination of that subject, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death. In every ...
The Ethics of Virtual and Augmented Reality: Building Worlds
1st Edition
By Erick Jose Ramirez
January 29, 2024
This book offers new ways of thinking about and assessing the impact of virtual reality on its users. It argues that we must go beyond traditional psychological concepts of VR "presence" to better understand the many varieties of virtual experiences. The author provides compelling evidence that VR ...
The Philosophy of Online Manipulation
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By Fleur Jongepier, Michael Klenk
January 29, 2024
Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online? This volume provides philosophical and conceptual depth to debates in ...