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Explorations in Ethics

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Showcases established and emerging scholars covering metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics

  • Addresses matters in ancient philosophy, moral psychology, and natural law.

  • Seeks to expand the scope of ethics theorizing

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Introduction

    • David Kaspar
    Pages 1-23
  3. The Euthyphro Problem Revisited

    • Katja Maria Vogt
    Pages 25-46
  4. Realism, Objectivity, and Evaluation

    • Justin Clarke-Doane
    Pages 47-58
  5. Well-Being as Harmony

    • Hasko von Kriegstein
    Pages 117-140
  6. On Moral Architecture

    • Diana Heney
    Pages 141-167
  7. The Central Difficulty of the Moral Life

    • David Kaspar
    Pages 169-195
  8. Desert-Sensitivity and Moral Evaluation

    • Leo Zaibert
    Pages 197-218
  9. A Natural Law Approach to Biomedical Ethics

    • Melissa Moschella
    Pages 269-286
  10. The Corruptions of Music

    • Peter L. Phillips Simpson
    Pages 287-304
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 305-312

About this book

Explorations in Ethics is a collection of essays with a speculative bent. Its twelve contributors attempt to take ethics thinking in new directions. Ethics is fundamentally a speculative discipline. We sometimes lose sight of that because of our current scholarly practices, which include reliance on a set of traditional works in ethics, deferring to the scholarly literature, drawing from the evidential sources afforded us. This volume breaks the mold. It is committed, first and foremost, to exploring new ground in a methodologically sound way whilst respecting and building on the literature where needed. The contributors range from world renowned ethicists to early-career scholars. The ethical standpoints represented are various and the overall aim of this collection is to stimulate fresh thinking.

Reviews

“David Kaspar is to be congratulated for putting together this bold and exciting collection of new explorations in our thinking about ethics.”
Sophie Grace Chappell, Professor of Philosophy, The Open University, UK

 

“A terrific collection, full of insights and new perspectives on fundamental ethical questions. The volume strikes an excellent balance between emerging voices and established leaders in the field. It addresses an impressive range of issues, from ethical objectivity, the function of moral principles, the nature of well-being, the problem of moral weakness, to bioethics, the role of resentment in punishment, and even the corruptions of music.”
François Schroeter and Laura Schroeter, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Editors and Affiliations

  • Philosophy, St. John’s University, Staten Island, USA

    David Kaspar

About the editor

David Kaspar teaches philosophy at St. John’s University, New York, USA



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Explorations in Ethics

  • Editors: David Kaspar

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48051-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48050-9Published: 02 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48053-0Published: 02 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48051-6Published: 01 September 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 312

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Ethics, Psychology, general, Robotics and Automation

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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