Books in the Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory series

This book addresses current threats to citizenship and democratic values posed by the spread of post-truth communication. The contributors apply research on moral, civic, and epistemic virtues to issues involving post-truth culture.

This book explores the nitty-gritty details of particular virtues. Most of the virtues discussed-ambition, cheerfulness, creativity, magnificence, pride, wit, wonder-have been almost wholly neglected by contemporary ethicists.

This book asks what the world would look like if we adopted agent relativity wholeheartedly, clinging to no shred of absolute morality.

Written from a non-theological perspective, this book offers a comprehensive history of the principle of double effect and its applications in philosophical ethics. The author examines the role of intentions in ethical thinking and constructs a novel defense of the principle based on fine distinctions between intentions.

As champions of deontology and consequentialism respectively, Kant and Sidgwick disagree on many important issues. However, close examination reveals a surprising amount of consensus on various topics including moral psychology, moral epistemology, and moral theology.

Moral certainty refers to those aspects of morality- moral acting, feeling, and thinking-that are beyond doubt, explanation, and justification. The essays in this book explore the concept of moral certainty and its application and usefulness in contemporary moral debates.

Moral certainty refers to those aspects of morality- moral acting, feeling, and thinking-that are beyond doubt, explanation, and justification. The essays in this book explore the concept of moral certainty and its application and usefulness in contemporary moral debates.

This book argues that the moral quality of an act comes from the agent's inner states. By arguing for the indispensable relevance of intention in the moral evaluation of acts, the book moves against a mainstream, 'objective' approach in normative ethics.

This volume addresses issues of moral pluralism and polarization by drawing attention to the transcendent character of the good. It probes the history of Christian theology and moral philosophy to investigate the value of this idea and then relates it to contemporary moral issues.

Incommensurability is the impossibility to determine how two options relate to each other in terms of conventional comparative relations. This book features new research on incommensurability from philosophers who have shaped the field into what it is today, including John Broome, Ruth Chang and Wlodek Rabinowicz.

This book advances research by exploring and challenging different theoretical approaches to empathy. It includes essays that advocate for the centrality of perspective-taking in empathy, as well as others that advance alternative theories that rely on narrative engagement, attunement, and the "second-person" model of empathy.

This book addresses current threats to citizenship and democratic values posed by the spread of post-truth communication. The contributors apply research on moral, civic, and epistemic virtues to issues involving post-truth culture.

This book rethinks the role of practical wisdom in light of recent developments in virtue theory and moral, social and developmental psychology. They address various topics related to practical wisdom and its development, including honesty, social cognitive theory, limited-information contexts, skill models, and the reciprocity of virtue.

This book presents and integrates new, interdisciplinary research into virtue, happiness, and the meaning of life by re-orienting these discussions around the concept of self-transcendence.

This book explores the relation between love and justice as it appears within loving relationships, between lovers and their wider social context, and the broader political realm. It addresses the conceptual and practical issues regarding the relation between love, justice, and autonomy and their broader societal and political implications.