Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
Infant Circumcision and Human Rights: A Test of Tolerance and Cultural Relativism
1st Edition
By Robert S. Van Howe
September 15, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive ethical examination of infant male circumcision through the lens of human rights theory. Drawing on over 30 years of clinical experience and extensive research, Robert S. Van Howe presents a systematic analysis of one of medicine's most controversial practices. ...
The Ethics and Epistemology of Vaccine Hesitancy
1st Edition
Edited
By Sven Bernecker, Thomas Edward Sorell
September 07, 2026
Philosophers have long discussed the ethical and epistemological issues raised by vaccines, but these issues have assumed new significance since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This volume focuses on vaccine hesitancy as a case of deep overlap of ethics and epistemology. Vaccine hesitancy ...
A Philosophical Case for Ecological Pessimism
1st Edition
By Toby Svoboda
July 20, 2026
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 ...
Ending Wars Justly: Theory and Applications
1st Edition
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By David K. Chan
July 20, 2026
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 ...
The Good of Workplace Democracy: The Moral Case for a Cooperative Economy
1st Edition
By S. Stewart Braun
July 17, 2026
This book argues for workplace democracy on the grounds that it supports the development of fundamental human goods such as personal autonomy, self-development, and communal solidarity. Workplace democracy is an old, but reinvigorated, idea that business firms should be organized democratically. ...
Rethinking Informed Consent in the Big Data Age
1st Edition
By Adam J. Andreotta
May 21, 2026
In the “big data age”, providing informed consent online has never been more challenging. Countless companies collect and share our personal data through devices, apps, and websites, fuelling a growing data economy and the emergence of surveillance capitalism. Few of us have the time to read the ...
Virtue Theory and Video Games: Level Up Your Character
1st Edition
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By Sarah C. Malanowski, Nicholas R. Baima
March 19, 2026
This volume explores the intersection of virtue theory and video games. By bringing together emerging and established scholars analyzing video game ethics from a virtue-theoretical perspective, this book both fills gaps in the literature and provides a foundation for advancing discussions in the ...
LGBTQ+ Family-Making, Reproductive Ethics, and the (Re)Shaping of Family Values
1st Edition
By Amanda Roth
December 28, 2025
This book examines the ethical issues surrounding assisted reproductive technologies and queer family-making practices. By focusing on LGBTQ+ people and experiences in relation to procreative ethics, this book challenges dominant approaches and views in philosophical bioethics. In Part 1 of this ...
Ethics and Situational Crime Prevention
1st Edition
By Thomas Søbirk Petersen
December 25, 2025
This book addresses the ethics of Situational Crime Prevention (SCP). It seeks not only to analyse specific SCP measures but to demonstrate how ethical analysis can support and improve the implementation of SCP strategies. In ethically analysing a particular SCP measure, it is not enough to look at...
Procreative Responsibility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
1st Edition
By Davide Battisti
December 25, 2025
This book rethinks procreative responsibility considering the continuous development of Assisted Reproductive Technologies. It presents a person-affecting moral argument, highlighting that the potential availability of future Assisted Reproductive Technologies brings out new procreative obligations...
Genetic Enhancement and Technomoral Change: An Anticipatory Ethics Approach
1st Edition
By Jon Rueda
October 31, 2025
This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the anticipatory ethical issues associated with human genetic enhancement. It provides instructive clarifications for understanding the philosophy and science behind this long-standing bioethical debate and identifies how genetic enhancement may ...
Human Freedom in the Age of AI
1st Edition
By Filippo Santoni de Sio
August 29, 2025
This book claims that artificial intelligence (AI) may affect our freedom at work, in our daily life, and in the political sphere. The author provides a philosophical framework to help make sense of and govern the ethical and political impact of AI in these domains. AI presents great opportunities ...