Ethics in Practice

Enables students to intelligently confront difficult ethical questions in a variety of practical contexts

For more than two decades, Ethics in Practice has equipped readers with all the tools needed to consider ethical issues and understand the historical basis of key developments in ethical theory. Bringing together original essays, new perspectives, and modern revisions of classic scholarship, this field-defining textbook integrates theory with practice. Rigorous yet accessible chapters, organized into thematic sections, empower students to think about punishment, economic injustice, discrimination, incarceration, genetic modification, gun control, torture, euthanasia, hate speech, abortion, and many other topics.

The sixth edition of Ethics in Practice is fully revised to reflect the latest empirical evidence and ethical perspectives. Expanded sections feature entirely new essays on punishment, sentencing, assassination, the environment, epistemic vices, pragmatic ethics, biomedical technologies, abortion post-Dobbs. New and updated case studies, examples, data, and references are employed throughout.

Through a rich and wide-ranging collection, Ethics in Practice:

• Offers incisive discussion of global, local, and personal ethical issues
• Explores the connections between ethical theory and practice
• Features general and section introductions clarifying complex concepts and highlighting the theoretical and practical dimensions of each issue
• Allow instructors to discuss specific practical issues, broader groupings of topics, and common themes that connect sections
• Includes a companion website with introductory essays on reading philosophy, theorizing about ethics, and writing a philosophy paper

Ethics in Practice: An Anthology, Sixth Edition, remains the ideal text for introductory and applied ethics courses, as well as an essential resource for instructors and students in philosophy departments worldwide.