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.
When Flourishing is Beyond Reach: Virtue Ethics, Society, and the Disadvantaged
1st Edition
By Howard J. Curzer
March 24, 2027
Contemporary society grapples with questions about the disadvantaged—who they are, what causes their circumstances, and what should be done to help them. When Flourishing is Beyond Reach offers a groundbreaking Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective on these pressing issues. Howard J. Curzer ...
Understanding Value Change: Empirical and Philosophical Approaches
1st Edition
By Ibo van de Poel, Steffen Steinert, Michael Klenk
March 17, 2027
This book provides the first comprehensive philosophical examination of value change. It offers both a theoretical framework for understanding value change and innovative empirical methods for studying it, paying particular attention to its implications for technological design and development. ...
Genealogy and Moral Progress: A Methodological Exploration
1st Edition
By Jinglin Zhou
December 28, 2026
This book examines how philosophers can justify theories of moral progress without relying on unexamined liberal assumptions. It argues that a credible theory must explain why certain moral judgments are more reliable than their rivals. The book develops a genealogical method for evaluating moral ...
Rights-Based Ethics: Foundations and Applications
1st Edition
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By Marcus Düwell, Johannes Graf Keyserlingk, Philipp Richter
December 28, 2026
Rights-based ethics offer a conceptual framework to address the complex ethical issues of our time. This volume combines systematic and historical perspectives on rights-based ethics with discussions of a broad range of topics in applied ethics to assess the achievements and limits of rights-based ...
Taking Moral Theorising Seriously: A Theory-First Approach to Moral Philosophy
1st Edition
By Andrew Sneddon
December 28, 2026
This book develops a plausible and novel account of methodology for moral philosophy. It focuses on the structural features of moral theories, specifically what is taken as input and the process of theorising itself. Philosophers have long neglected the difficulties of identifying and using good ...
Problems of Choice: Normativity, Rationality, Axiology, and Morality
1st Edition
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By Mathea S. Sagdahl, Attila G. Tanyi
December 23, 2026
This volume features new, cutting-edge research on problems of choice in connection with four different fields of inquiry: normativity, rationality, axiology, and morality. It addresses a wide range of pressing issues to which problems of choice and practical conflicts give rise, and the various ...
How We Blame: A Theory of Moral Responsibility
1st Edition
By Bana Bashour
October 15, 2026
This book presents a naturalistic account of moral responsibility that is neutral on the metaphysics of free will. It engages with empirical literature in experimental philosophy and psychology and draws on real-life case studies to illuminate the author’s theory of moral responsibility. The ...
Morality Collapses: Against the Right and the Good
1st Edition
By Stephen Kershnar
October 15, 2026
This book argues that consequentialism and non-consequentialism are false because they face metaphysical and intuitional problems. The two theories exhaust the theories of the right, so there is no rightness. This result matters because it requires us to give up widely held beliefs regarding ...
The Autonomy of Normativity: Logical and Metaphysical Interpretations of the Is-Ought-Gap
1st Edition
By Singa Behrens
October 15, 2026
While the Is-Ought Gap has recently been a topic of growing interest, most contributions are firmly fixed on logical, often quite technical accounts of the autonomy thesis. This book defends two complementary autonomy theses—a modal and ground-based thesis—that provide a deeper and more ...
What Is the Point of Moral Philosophy?
1st Edition
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By Roger Crisp, Ingmar Persson, Julian Savulescu
October 15, 2026
Over the last half-century, moral philosophy has taken an applied turn, covering practical issues in areas such as medicine, business, the environment, and many others. But it has largely failed to examine itself. In this volume, a range of distinguished contemporary ethicists, representing many ...
The Ethics of Inefficacy
1st Edition
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By Mattias Gunnemyr, Rutger van Oeveren, Jan Willem Wieland
October 06, 2026
If my booking a flight does not make a difference to the plane taking off and to climate change, what reason is there for me not to fly? If my small donation does not make a difference to what Doctors Without Borders can achieve, why should I donate? If my purchase of a factory-farmed chicken does ...
The Dual Force of Welfare: Unravelling Personal and Impersonal Views in Ethics
1st Edition
By Jonas Harney
September 21, 2026
This book explores the moral significance of welfare by dissecting a dichotomy central to moral theory and welfare ethics: the distinction between personal and impersonal views. It systematically examines this distinction, revealing its ambiguities and implications for moral judgements in general ...