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.
Taking Moral Theorising Seriously: A Theory-First Approach to Moral Philosophy
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By Andrew Sneddon
September 29, 2025
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 ...
Rights-Based Ethics: Foundations and Applications
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By Marcus Düwell, Johannes Graf Keyserlingk, Philipp Richter
September 15, 2025
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 ...
The Autonomy of Normativity: Logical and Metaphysical Interpretations of the Is-Ought-Gap
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By Singa Behrens
August 14, 2025
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?
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By Roger Crisp, Ingmar Persson, Julian Savulescu
July 15, 2025
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 ...
How We Blame: A Theory of Moral Responsibility
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By Bana Bashour
July 07, 2025
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 ...
A Phenomenological Analysis of Envy
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By Michael Robert Kelly
June 27, 2025
This book provides a phenomenological analysis of envy. The author’s account takes a descriptive look at the whole experience of envy as it pertains to the envier’s sense of self and the envied. Philosophical work on envy has predominately focused on how the envier perceives, thinks about, or ...
Morality Collapses: Against the Right and the Good
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By Stephen Kershnar
June 26, 2025
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 Self, Civic Virtue, and Public Life: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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By Nancy E. Snow
May 26, 2025
This volume showcases new and interesting ways in which the possession of civic virtues can contribute to people’s abilities to engage in public life in meaningful ways. What is the role of civic virtues in public life? How does possessing civic virtues affect persons and their capacities for ...
Responsibility Collapses: Why Moral Responsibility is Impossible
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By Stephen Kershnar
May 05, 2025
Our worldview assumes that people are morally responsible. Our emotions, beliefs, and values assume that a person is responsible for what she thinks and does, and that this is a good thing. This book argues that this worldview is false. It provides four arguments for this conclusion that build on ...
Virtuous and Vicious Expressions of Partiality
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By Eric J. Silverman
May 05, 2025
This volume gathers essays from leading scholars to discuss partiality in ethics. The chapters examine the virtuous and vicious ways in which we relate to those close to us. There has long been a puzzle in ethics concerning the balance between our general moral obligations to everyone and our ...
Moral Thought Outside Moral Theory
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By Craig Taylor
January 30, 2025
This book argues there can be no theory of ethics and that any attempt at such a theory ends up distorting the moral phenomena that it is supposed to explain. It presents clear examples of moral thought outside moral theorising through literature and Wittgenstein’s later philosophy. The book’s ...
Moral Injury and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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By Andrew I. Cohen, Kathryn McClymond
December 18, 2024
This book brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars to broaden and deepen the conversation about moral injury. In the original chapters, the contributors present new research to show how the humanities are crucial for understanding the expressions, meaning, and significance of moral injury...