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.
Welfare, Meaning, and Worth
1st Edition
By Aaron Smuts
June 30, 2020
Welfare, Meaning, and Worth argues that there is more to what makes a life worth living than welfare, and that a good life does not consist of what is merely good for the one who lives it. Smuts defends an objective list theory that states that the notion of worth captures matters of importance for...
Ethics and Social Survival
1st Edition
By Milton Fisk
December 10, 2019
When speaking of society’s role in ethics, one tends to think of society as regimenting people through its customs. Ethics and Social Survival rejects theories that treat ethics as having justification within itself and contends that ethics can have a grip on humans only if it serves their ...
Love, Reason and Morality
1st Edition
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By Katrien Schaubroeck, Esther Kroeker
December 10, 2019
This book brings together new essays that explore the connection between love and reasons. The observation that considerations of love carry significant weight in the deliberative process opens up new perspectives in the classic discussion about practical reasons, and gives rise to many interesting...
In Defense of Moral Luck: Why Luck Often Affects Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness
1st Edition
By Robert Hartman
July 12, 2019
The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility. In one strand of our thinking, we believe that a person can become more blameworthy by luck. For example, two reckless drivers manage their vehicles in the same way, and one but not the ...
Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought
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By Reshef Agam-Segal, Edmund Dain
July 12, 2019
Wittgenstein’s work, early and later, contains the seeds of an original and important rethinking of moral or ethical thought that has, so far, yet to be fully appreciated. The ten essays in this collection, all specially commissioned for this volume, are united in the claim that Wittgenstein’s ...
Duties Regarding Nature: A Kantian Environmental Ethic
1st Edition
By Toby Svoboda
March 05, 2019
In this book, Toby Svoboda develops and defends a Kantian environmental virtue ethic, challenging the widely-held view that Kant's moral philosophy has little to offer environmental ethics. On the contrary, Svoboda contends that on Kantian grounds, there is good moral reason to care about...
Virtue’s Reasons: New Essays on Virtue, Character, and Reasons
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By Noell Birondo, S. Stewart Braun
March 05, 2019
Virtues and reasons are two of the most fruitful and important concepts in contemporary moral philosophy. Many writers have commented upon the close connection between virtues and reasons, but no one has done full justice to the complexity of this connection. It is generally recognized that the ...
Environmental Skill: Motivation, Knowledge, and the Possibility of a Non-Romantic Environmental Ethics
1st Edition
By Mark Coeckelbergh
August 14, 2018
Today it is widely recognized that we face urgent and serious environmental problems and we know much about them, yet we do very little. What explains this lack of motivation and change? Why is it so hard to change our lives? This book addresses this question by means of a philosophical inquiry ...
Moral Responsibility and the Problem of Many Hands
1st Edition
By Ibo van de Poel, Lambèr Royakkers, Sjoerd D. Zwart
August 14, 2018
When many people are involved in an activity, it is often difficult, if not impossible, to pinpoint who is morally responsible for what, a phenomenon known as the ‘problem of many hands.’ This term is increasingly used to describe problems with attributing individual responsibility in collective ...
The Intrinsic Value of Endangered Species
1st Edition
By Ian A. Smith
June 14, 2018
Why save endangered species without clear aesthetic, economic, or ecosystemic value? This book takes on this challenging question through an account of the intrinsic goods of species. Ian A. Smith argues that a species’ intrinsic value stems from its ability to flourish—its organisms continuing to ...
The Limits of Moral Obligation: Moral Demandingness and Ought Implies Can
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By Marcel van Ackeren, Michael Kühler
June 14, 2018
This volume responds to the growing interest in finding explanations for why moral claims may lose their validity based on what they ask of their addressees. Two main ideas relate to that question: the moral demandingness objection and the principle "ought implies can." Though both of these ideas ...
Developing Moral Sensitivity
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By Deborah Mower, Wade L. Robison, Phyllis Vandenberg
February 12, 2018
Moral sensitivity affects whether and how we see others, note moral concerns, respond with delicacy, and navigate complex social interactions. Scholars from a variety of fields explore the concept of moral sensitivity and how it develops, beginning with a natural moral capacity for sensitivity ...