Ethics Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Human Health and Ecological Integrity

   Ethics, Law and Human Rights

   Edited by Laura Westra, Colin L. Soskolne, Donald W. Spady

   The connection between environment and health has been well studied and documented, particularly by the World Health Organization. It is now being included in some legal instruments, although for the most part caselaw does not explicitly make that connection. Neither the right to life nor the...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Social Humanism

   A New Metaphysics

   By Brian Ellis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   In this book, Ellis argues that moral and political objectives are not independent of one other, and so must be pursued in tandem. Social humanism is a moral and political philosophy that does just this. As a political philosophy, it justifies the implementation and maintenance of many of the...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Needs and Moral Necessity

   By Soran Reader

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Reasons, Patterns, and Cooperation

   By Christopher Woodard

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

   This book is about fundamental questions in normative ethics. It begins with the idea that we often respond to ethical theories according to how principled or pragmatic they are. It clarifies this contrast and then uses it to shed light on old debates in ethics, such as debates about the rival...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Reaffirming Legal Ethics

   Taking Stock and New Ideas

   Edited by Kieran Tranter, Francesca Bartlett, Lillian Corbin, Michael Robertson, Reid Mortensen

   Series: Routledge Research in Legal Ethics

   It has been over thirty years since the founding crises that birthed legal ethics as both a field of study and a discrete field of law. In that time thinking about the ethical dimension of legal practice has taken several turns: from justifications of zealous advocacy, to questions of process and...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Morality, Self Knowledge and Human Suffering

   An Essay on The Loss of Confidence in the World

   By Josep Corbí

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   In this wholly original study, Josep Corbi asks how one should relate to a certain kind of human suffering, namely, the harm that people cause one another. Relying upon real life examples of human suffering--including torture, genocide, and warfare--as opposed to thought experiments,...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
7. Animality in British Romanticism

   The Aesthetics of Species

   By Peter Heymans

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   The scientific, political, and industrial revolutions of the Romantic period transformed the status of humans and redefined the concept of species. This book examines literary representations of human and non-human animality in British Romanticism. The book’s novel approach focuses on the role of...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
8. Reforming Capitalism

   The Scientific Worldview and Business

   By Rogene Buchholz

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Ethics

   This book examines the role that the traditional understanding of science plays in how we understand the capitalistic system and how it informs business and business school education. Science serves many purposes in business organizations; it is much more than just a method to gain knowledge about...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Ethics of Gender-Specific Disease

   By Mary Ann Cutter

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Our understanding of gender carries significant bioethical implications. An errant account of gender-specific disease can lead to overgeneralizations, undergeneralizations, and misdiagnoses. It can also lead to problems in the structure of health-care delivery, the creation of policy, and the...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. Law and Bioethics

    Intersections Along the Mortal Coil

    By George P. Smith II

    George P. Smith, II is a leading figure in the world of medical law and ethics. During his long career he has addressed some of the most important issues in bioethics and has contributed much original thought to debates in the field. This book celebrates his contribution to scholarship in this area...

    Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge