The Ethics of Vaccination

This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics. It addresses the issue of what it means for a collective to be morally responsible for the realisation of herd immunity and what the implications of collective responsibility are for individual and institutional respon…

The Power of Morality in Movements: Civic Engagement in Climate Justice, Huma…

This Open Access book explores the role of morality in social movements. Morality has always been central to social movements whether it be in the form of the moral foundations of movement claims, politics and ideologies, the values motivating participation, the new moral principles envisioned and practiced among movement participants, or the overall struggle over society’s moral values that …

The Everyday Lives of Gay Men : Autoethnographies of the Ordinary

Draws on the expertise of twelve contributors, writing from an autoethnographic first person approach.

Uncertain Bioethics : Moral Risk and Human Dignity

Uncertain Bioethics makes a significant and distinctive contribution to the bioethics literature by culling the insights from contemporary moral psychology to highlight the epistemic pitfalls and distorting influences on our apprehension of value. Stephen Napier also incorporates research from epistemology addressing pragmatic encroachment and the significance of peer disagreement to justify wh…

FOLK DEVILS AND MORAL PANICS IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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The self, civic virtue, and public life: interdisciplinary perspectives

Introduction / Nancy E. Snow -- Can Feelings of Authenticity Help to Guide Virtuous Behavior? -- Civic Virtues, Wisdom, and Psychological Resilience -- Personal Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance: From Values to Virtues -- Good Citizenship and Sustainable

The Social Turn in Moral Psychology

"In this book, Mark Fedyk offers a novel analysis of the relationship between moral psychology and allied fields in the social sciences. Fedyk shows how the social sciences can be integrated with moral philosophy, argues for the benefits of such an integration, and offers a new ethical theory that can be used to bridge research between the two. Fedyk argues that moral psychology should take a s…

The Philosophy of Human Rights: Contemporary Controversies

The notion of "human rights" is widely used in political and moral debates. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an important practical function: It allows moral criticism of various wrongs and calls for action in order to prevent them. The articles in this collection take up a tension between the wide political use of human rights claims…

Foundations for Moral Relativism

In this new edition of Foundations for Moral Relativism a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J. David Velleman shows that different communities can indeed be subject to incompatible moralities, because their local mores are rationally binding. At the same time, he explains why the mores of different communities, even when incompatible, a…

Metaethics from A First Person Standpoint: An Introduction To Moral Philosophy

Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by ‘right’ and ‘wrong.’