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.
The Ethics of Inefficacy
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By Mattias Gunnemyr, Rutger van Oeveren, Jan Willem Wieland
October 07, 2026
If my booking a flight doesn’t 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 doesn’t make a difference to what Doctors Without Borders can achieve, why should I donate? If my purchase of a factory-farmed chicken doesn’t...
The Dual Force of Welfare: Unravelling Personal and Impersonal Views in Ethics
1st Edition
By Jonas Harney
September 22, 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 judgments in general ...
Philosophy and the Evolution of Virtue and Vice
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By Michael T. Dale, Isaac Wiegman
August 31, 2026
This volume explores what evolutionary theory can contribute to our philosophical understanding of virtue and vice. The last twenty years has seen an uptick in philosophical discussions of the biological and cultural evolution of morality. Yet, there has been surprisingly little discussion of ...
Moral Impossibility: Ethical, Political, and Psychological Perspectives
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By Silvia Caprioglio Panizza
August 03, 2026
This volume provides a comprehensive picture of the significance of moral impossibility. It explores conceptual and applied questions through the moral psychology, meta-ethics, and politics of moral impossibility. In every choice, action, and act of the imagination, what is possible for us is ...
The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch
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By Mark Hopwood
July 20, 2026
The moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch said that philosophy “is both the guide and mirror of the age”. In this wide-ranging book Mark Hopwood explores the significance of Murdoch's philosophy in the present day, paying particular attention to her account of the role of metaphor and imagery...
Unfair Emotions: Their Morality and Blameworthiness
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By Jonas Blatter
July 20, 2026
This book provides a novel philosophical account of the unfairness of certain emotions. It explains how the concept of unfairness can be applied to emotions and how emotions can be the proper objects of second-person moral evaluation. Emotions are an integral part of our moral practices. While the ...
Because You Promised: A Non-Reductive Account of the Normativity of Promises
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By Daniele Bruno
May 18, 2026
As a moral phenomenon, promises have long received great amounts of attention in philosophical debates within both normative ethics and metaethics. This book defends a novel trust-based form of non-reductivism about promises and promissory normativity. There is a tension inherent in the ways in ...
Virtuous Responses to Suffering, Tragedy, and Evil
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By Eric J. Silverman
January 28, 2026
Suffering and tragic situations have always been a part of human experience. This book features essays from varying philosophical views on responses to tragedy, suffering and evil. Many conflicting strategies for addressing such situations have been proposed in response to such tragedies. Both ...
Moral Agency in Eastern and Western Thought: Perspectives on Crafting Character
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By Jonathan Jacobs, Heinz-Dieter Meyer
December 26, 2025
This volume explores how individuals use moral agency to craft the moral dispositions and moral capabilities needed for living well-lived lives. It draws on Eastern and Western philosophical and ethical traditions to formulate and address key issues concerning character development and moral agency...
Living Ethics in Theory and Practice
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By Eric Racine, Bénédicte D’Anjou, Caroline Favron-Godbout, Giulia Inguaggiato, Suzanne Metselaar, Gabriel Saso-Baudaux
December 01, 2025
This volume advances a new approach to ethics: “living ethics”. As an ethical and philosophical orientation, living ethics offers a refreshing perspective on how difficult human situations become opportunities for co-learning and co-creative ethical thinking. Living ethics starts with the ...
Goodness and Tradition
1st Edition
By Irene Liu
October 27, 2025
This book investigates the importance of spirituality in moral life. The author claims that modern secular morality suffers from a lack of spirituality and argues that a solution to this problem can be found in tradition. Over several centuries, a process of secularization has loosened both the ...
Public Health Virtue Ethics: Institutions, Structures, and Political Virtue for the Good Society
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By Kathryn L. MacKay
October 27, 2025
This book argues that virtue ethics should be incorporated into public health ethics. It provides the theoretical foundations for a virtue ethics that is applicable to public health, as well as political institutions more broadly. Ethical analyses of public health policies and practices have been ...