Bücher der Reihe Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy

This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics.

This volume considers the ethics of policing and imprisonment, focusing particularly on mass incarceration and police shootings in the United States.

In the first full length examination of the topic, Ethical Citizenship rediscovers a significant and distinctive contribution to how we might understand citizenship today. Leading international scholars bring together theory and practice to explore its historical roots, contemporary relevance and application to international politics.

The Moral Responsibilities of Companies is a philosophical analysis of the question of whether companies can be held morally responsible for the harms they create, and what implications such a view has on the moral position of employees and shareholders in these companies.

This book takes the contentious issue of designer babies and argues against the liberal eugenic current of bioethics that commends the logic and choice regimes of selective reproduction.

This volume considers the ethics of policing and imprisonment, focusing particularly on mass incarceration and police shootings in the United States.

Arguing that the suffering of combatants is better understood through philosophy than psychology, as not trauma, but exile, this book investigates the experiences of torturers, UAV operators, cyberwarriors, and veterans to reveal not only the exile at the core of becoming a combatant, but the evasion from exile at the core of being a noncombatant.

This book argues that understanding truces is crucial for our ability to wind down wars. We have paid too much attention to the idea of permanent peace, yet few conflicts end in this way. The book describes how truce makers think, which truces can be morally justified and provides a philosophical history of truce making in the Western tradition.

How might political emotions contribute to the creation of a decent public sphere? But there is an increasing recognition that emotions can be harnessed to empower community cohesion and social justice - and new ideas about how our political emotions can foster a decent public sphere and overcome intolerance are urgently needed.