Topics Currently Included in the International Encyclopedia of Ethics

White: currently published. New: light yellow; Revised: light green; Redone from scratch:light blue. Pub date in parenthesis.

[The ones in yellow, green, or blue will be available only online until all appear in the Second Print Edition (2020)]


Current Headwords (Topics)

A Posteriori Ethical Knowledge Faith Overridingness, Moral
A Priori Ethical Knowledge Falk, W. D. Pacifism
Abelard, Peter Family Palliative Care (17)
Abortion Fanon, Frantz (15) Paradox of Deontology
Academic Freedom (20) Fatherhood Paradox of Happiness
Accounting Ethics (19) Feinberg, Joel Paradoxes of Voting
Achievement (18) Feizi, Han (19) Parents' Rights and Responsibilities
Action Feminist Bioethics Parfit, Derek (20)
Addams, Jane Feminist Ethics (19) Particularism
Addiction (19) Feminist Metaethics Patents (19)
Adoption Feminist Political Theory Paternalism (15 & 20)
Adorno, Theodor W. Fetuses Patience (16) [revised 2020]
Adultery Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (19) Pedophilia
Advance Directives (19) Fictionalism, Moral Pediatric Organ Transplantation (20)
Adversarial System of Justice Filial Duties Perception, Moral
Advertising, Ethics of Firth, Roderick Perfectionism
Aesthetics and Ethics Food Ethics (19) Perry, Ralph Barton
Affirmative Action Foot, Philippa Personal Ideals (19)
African American Religious Ethics Forgiveness Personal Relationships
African Ethics (15) Foucault, Michel Personhood, Criteria of
African Politial Philosophy (15) Frankena, William K. Pharmacist Ethics
Agape Free Riding Phenomenology, Moral (19)
Age Discrimination Free Will Philanthropy (19)
Agent-Centered Options Frege-Geach Objection Philosophical and Religious Ethics (20)
Agent-Centered Restrictions Freud, Sigmund Plato
Agent-Relative vs. Agent-Neutral Friendship Plea Bargaining (19)
Aggregation (19) Frondizi, Risieri Pleasure
Agricultural Ethics Functionalism, Moral (19) Plotinus (20)
Aid, Ethics of Fuller, Lon L. (20) Political Correctness
AIDS (renamed "HIV / AIDS") (19) Game Theory and Rational Choice Political Ethics (19)
Al-Farabi Gandhi, Mohandas K. (15) Political Obligation
Alienation (20) Gender and Patriarchy in Religions Police Ethics (19)
Allocating Scarce Medical Resources Generalism vrs. Particularism Polyamory (16)
Altruism and Biology Generosity (19) Population (20)
Amnesty (19) Genetic Testing Pornography and Obscenity (20)
Amoralist (19) Genetically Modified Organisms Potential Persons
Analogical Arguments Genocide Poverty (20)
Anarchism (20) Geroethics (20) Power (20)
Ancient Ethics (18) Geulincx, Arnold (15) Practical Conditionals
Ancillary-Care Obligations Glass Ceiling (19) Practical Reasoning
Anger (19) Global Business Ethics Practical Virtue Ethics
Animal Cognition Global Distributive Justice Pragmatic Ethics
Animal Experimentation Global Finance (19) Pragmatic Theory of Action
Animal Rights Global Health Ethics Praise (19)
Animals, Moral Status of Global Poverty Praxis
Anscombe, G.E.M. Globalization Precautionary Principle (20)
Anthopocentrism Golden Rule Precedent (20)
Apology (19) Good and Bad Samaritanism Predatory Pricing
Applied Ethics Good and Better (20) Preference (20)
Aquinas, Saint Thomas Good and Good for (17) Prescriptivism
Arendt, Hannah Goodness, Varieties of Preventive and Preemptive War
Argumentative Ethics (20) Gratitude Price, Richard
Aristotle (20) Greatest Happiness Principle Prichard, H. A.
Arrogance (19) Greed (18) Pride
Arrow's Theorem Green, T.H. Prima Facie and Pro Tanto Oughts
Artificial Intelligence (19) Grief (15) Principlism
Aspiration (19) Grotius, Hugo Prioritarianism (18)
Assassination (19) Groups, Moral Status of Prisoners' Rights (19)
Association, Freedom of Guilt Privacy (20)
Associative Duties Guise of the Good Privacy and the Internet (16)
Atonement Gun Control (20) Pro Attitudes
Attention, Moral Guo Xiang Procreation Ethics (19)
Attitudes, Reactive Gusdorf, Georges (19) Productive Justice (19)
Augustine, Saint Guyau, Jean-Marie (15) Professional Ethics (15)
Austin, J. L. (20) Habit (2020) Profit Motive
Austin, John Happiness Projectivism
Authenticity Hare, R. M. Promises
Authority Harm Propaganda
Autonomy (20) Harm Principle Properties, Moral
Autonomy of Ethics (19) Harrington, James (19) Proportionality (in War)
Ayer, A. J. Hart, H.L.A. (18) Prostitution (renamed "Sex Work") (17)
Bad Faith and the Unconscious (19) Hartmann, Nicolai Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
Badiou, Alain Hate Speech (20) Prudence (19)
Balguy, John Health and Disease in Religions Psychiatric Ethics (19)
Basic Income (19) Health Care Resources, Distribution of Psychopathy
Barth, Karl (16) Health Surveillance, Ethics of Psychopharmacology
Benefiting from Injustice (19) Hedonism Psychosurgery (20)
Benevolence (18) Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Public Goods
Bentham, Jeremy Heidegger, Martin Public Health Ethics
Bergson, Henri Hellenistic Ethics Public Philosophy (19)
Berlin, Isaiah (15) Highest Good Public Reason
Bias (18) Hindu Ethics Publicity (19)
Biocentrism (16) HIV / AIDS (19) [renamed from AIDS] Pufendorf, Samuel von
Bioethics Hobbes, Thomas Punishment
Biopolitics (15) Hobhouse, L.T. (17) Quasi-Realism
Biopiracy Holism (16) Queerness, Argument from (17 & 20)
Biotechnology (19) Holocaust (20) Quietism
Birth Control (19) Homicide Quotidian Ethics
Blame Homosexuality Rabbinic Ethics
Bloch, Ernst Honor Race, What It Is
Body (15) Hope (19) Racial Profiling (20)
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich (15) Hospitality (15) Racism
Bluffing Human Rights and Religion (20) Ransom (19)
Boycotts Human Subjects, Research Use of Ranciére, Jacques
Bradley, F.H. (19) Humanitarian Intervention (18) Rape (19)
Brain Death Human Trafficking (20) Rashdall, Hastings (16)
Brain Drain (18) Hume, David (20) Rationalism in Ethics (17)
Brentano, Franz Humility (19) Rationality
Bribery and Extortion Humor, Ethics of Rauschenbusch, Walter
Buber, Martin Hunting Rawls, John (20)
Buck-Passing Accounts (19) Husserl, Edmund (19) Realism, Moral
Buddhist Ethics (20) Hutcheson, Francis Reason and Passion
Bullying (16) Hybrid Theories of Moral Statements Reasons
Burden of Proof (16) Hybrid Theories of Well-Being (I9) Reasons for Action, Morality and
Burke, Edmund Hypocrisy (19) Reasons, Internal and External
Business Ethics Ideal Observer Theories Reasons, Motivating and Normative
Butler, Joseph Idealization in Ethics Reasons: Atomism and Holism
Calvin, John Identity, Politics of Reasonable Person Standard (19)
Camus, Albert (20) Imagination in Ethics Reciprocity
Capabilities Immigration (19) Recognition
Capital Punishment Impartiality Reconciliation (19)
Care Ethics Imperatives, Categorical and Hypothetical Reductionism in Ethics
Carritt, E.F. (16) Imperatives, Logic of (15) Reflective Equilibrium
Castes and Casteism (19) Imperfect Duties (20) Refugees (20)
Casuistry Implicit Bias (18) Regret (20)
Categorical Imperative (19) Incest Reid, Thomas
Character (20) Incommensurability (and Incomparability) Reification (19)
Charity Infanticide Relational Autonomy (19)
Chastity Infectious Diseases Relational Ethics (16)
Cheating Informed Consent Relativism, Moral
Child Abuse and Neglect (19) Inheritance (20) Religion and Global Ethics
Children's Rights (19) Insanity Defense (19) Religion and Politics (20)
Citizenship Instrumental Value Religion, Freedom of (19)
Civic Friendship Integrity (18) Religious Saints
Civic Virtue Intellectual Property (19) Reparations (20)
Civil Disobedience Intellectual Virtue (18) Reproductive Technology (20)
Civil Rights (20) Intention Repugnant Conclusion
Civilian Immunity Intentionality Research Ethics (18)
Civility (19) Intergenerational Ethics (16 & 20) Respect (20)
Climate Change Internalism, Motivational Response-Dependent Theories
Cloning International Bill of Rights (19) Responsibility (18)
Codes of Ethics International Criminal Justice (19) Responsibility, Continental Perspectives on (15)
Coercion (19) International Relations (16 & 20) Responsibility for Structural Injustice (18)
Coercive Wage Offers International Research Ethics Retribution
Cognitivism Internet Ethics Ricoeur, Paul (19)
Cohen, G.A (18) Intersubjectivity (20) Rights (18)
Cohen, Hermann Intimidation (16) Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Coherentism, Moral Intransitivity Ring of Gyges
Collateral Consequences of Conviction (19) Intrinsic Value Risk (19)
Collateral Damage (20) Intuitionism, Moral Robotics (19)
Collective Responsibility Intuitions, Moral Rorty, Richard
Colonialism and Post-Colonialism Islamic Ethics Rosemont, Henry, Jr. (20)
Commitment Is-Ought Gap Ross, W. D.
Commodification (19) Jain Ethics Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Common Good (20) James, William (16) Rules, Standards, and Principles
Communitarianism Jankélévitch, Vladimir (15) [revised: 2020] Russell, Bertrand
Companion Animals (15) Jaspers, Karl Same-Sex Marriage
Companions in Guilt Strategy (17 &19) Jefferson, Thomas Sartre, Jean-Paul
Comparable Worth Journalistic Ethics (15) Satisficing
Comparative Religious Ethics Journalistic Objectivity (15) Savior Siblings
Compensatory Justice Just Cause (in War) (19) Scarcity (17)
Competitive Sports, Ethics of (20) Just Price Scheler, Max
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (20) Just War Theory, History of Schelling, Fredrich
Complicity (17) Justice (17) Schleiermacher, Fredrich
Compromise (15) Juvenile Justice (17) Schopenhauer, Arthur
Computer Ethics (20) Kant, Immanuel Secession
Concepts vs. Properties, Moral Kantian Business Ethics (19) Self-Deception
Condorcet (15) Kantian Practical Ethics (20) Self-Defense
Condorcet's Jury Theorem (20) Kelsen, Hans (19) Self-plagiarism (19)
Confidentiality Kierkegaard, Søren(16) Self-Respect and Self-Esteem (19)
Conflict of Interest Killing Semantics, Moral
Confucian Ethics King Jr., Martin Luther Sensibility Theory
Confucius Laozi Sentience, Moral Relevance of
Conjoined Twins (17) Las Casas, Bartolome de (18) Sentimentalism
Conscience Last Person Arguments Sentiments, Moral
Conscience and Professionals Late Modern British Ethics (17 & 20) Sex Work (formerly "Prostitution") (17)
Conscientious Objection (20) Late Modern Continental Sexual Consent
Consent Partial- and After-Birth Abortion (16) Sexual Equality (19)
Consequentialism (20) Latin American Ethics (20) Sexual Harassment
Conservation Biology Leadership Ethics (17) Sexual Morality
Constructivism, Moral Leaking (19) Sexuality in Religions
Constitutivism, Moral (20) Legal Ethics Shaftesbury, Third Earl of
Consumption, Ethics of (15) Legal Moralism (17) Shame and Honor
Contextualism in Ethics (17, 19) Levinas, Emmanuel Sidgwick, Henry (17 & 20)
Continental Feminist Ethics Liberalism (18) Sin, Concepts of
Contractualism (20) Liberation Theology and Ethics Situationism (17)
Corporal Punishment Libertarianism (20) Siting (20)
Corporate Culture Liberty Skepticism, Moral
Corporate Governance (19) Life, Meaning of (20) Slavery
Corporate Social Responsibility (19) Life, Value of Slippery Slope Arguments
Corruption (19) Literature and Ethics (20) Slurs (19)
Cosmopolitanism (17) Locke, John (19) Social Contract (15 & 20)
Cost-Benefit Analysis (19) Long-Term Care Socrates
Courage Lookism (17) Solidarity (19)
Crimes Against Humanity Love (20) Sophists
Criminal Attempts (19) Loyalty Species, the Value of
Criminal Justice Ethics Luther, Martin (19) Speech, Freedom of
Criminal Law Lying and Deceit Spencer, Herbert
Critical Theory Machiavelli, Niccolò Spinoza, Baruch
Cryoethics Mackie, J. L. Stakeholder Theory
Cudworth, Ralph Maimonides, Moses Stem Cell Research
Culture (20) Malebranche, Nicolas (19) Stereotyping (19)
Cybersecurity (19) Mandeville, Bernard Stevenson, C. L. (19)
Cyrenaics (20) Manipulation Stewart, Dugald
Daoist Ethics Marcel, Gabriel Stoicism
Date Rape (20) Marcuse, Herbert (17) Strawson, P. F.
de Beauvoir, Simone Marion, Jean-Luc Strict Liability
Death Maritain, Jacques (19) Suárez, Francisco
Declaration of Helsinki (19) Marriage (19) Subjectivism, Ethical
Deep Ecology (20) Marx, Karl Subjective Theories of Well-Being (19)
Deleuze, Gilles Mead, George Herbert Suffering
Democracy Media Ethics (19) Sufficiency Principle (19)
Deontic Logic (20) Medical Futility (17) Suicide
Deontology Medical Tourism Supererogation
Derrida, Jacques Medieval Ethics (18) Supervenience, Moral
Desert Mencius Surrogacy (20)
Desire Mercenaries and Private Military Companies Survivor's Guilt (18)
Desire Theories of the Good (19) Mercy Sustainability
Deterrence (19) Metaethics (19) Sympathy
Development Ethics (19) Metaethics and Ethics Synthetic Life Sciences
Dewey, John Methodology in Metaethics (16) Targeted Killing (19)
Diderot, Denis Methods of Practical Ethics Taxation (19)
Difference Principle Military Necessity Territorial Rights (19)
Dilemmas, Moral (17) Military Occupation Terrorism
Dilthey, Wilhelm Mill, John Stuart Testimony, Moral (20)
Direction of Fit Minimalism about Truth, Ethics and Thick and Thin Concepts (19)
Dirty Hands (15) Miskawayh (19) Thomasius, Christian
Disabilities, People with (20) Modesty (19) Thoreau, Henry David
Disability and Well-Being (19) Montaigne, Michel de Thought Experiments in Ethics (19)
Disagreement, Moral (16) Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Time Bias (19)
Discourse Ethics Moore, G. E. Toleration
Discretion (20) Moral Absolutes (20) Torts (20)
Discrimination Moral Agency Torture
Disease Mongering (20) Moral Certainty (18) Trade Secrets (19)
Disgust (18) Moral Character (17) Tragedy of the Commons
Distance, Moral Relevance of Moral Development Transformative Experiences (20)
Divine Command Moral Expertise (18) Transgender Rights (19)
Doctrine of Double Effect Moral Education Transitional Justice (19)
Doing and Allowing Moral Equality of Combatants TRIPS (20)
Domestic Violence (20) Moral Judgment Troeltsch, Ernst
Dōgen (16) Moral Language, Uses of Trolley Problem (15)
Dual Use Research Moral Luck Trust (20)
Duns Scotus Moral Point of View (19) Truth Commissions (19)
Durkheim, Emile Moral Progress (18) Truth in Ethics
Duties to the Dead (19) Moral Psychology Twentieth Century Continental Ethics
Duty and Obligation Moral Reasoning Twin Earth, Moral
Dworkin, Ronald (20) Moral Status Ubutu Ethics (19)
Early Christian Ethics Moral Uncertainty (20) Unity of Normativity (19)
Early Modern Ethics (20) Morality, Definition of (20) Universalizability
Eastern Orthodox Ethics Morally Tragic Life Usury
Ecofeminism (19) Motherhood Utilitarianism
Ecological Restoration Motivation, Humean Theory of Vaccination Policies
Economic Sanctions Motivation, Moral Value Pluralism
Economics and Ethics Mozi Value Realism
Edwards, Jonathan (15) [revised: 2020] Multiculturalism Value, Fitting-Attitude Account of (19)
Effective Altruism (19) Murdoch, Iris (19) Vegetarianism and Veganism
Egalitarianism Mysticism and Ethics (19) Veterinary Ethics (19)
Egoism Nanotechnology, Ethics of (20) Victimless Crimes
Embryo Research Narcissism (19) Violence
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Narrative Ethics (20) Violent Sports (16)
Emotion Nationalism and Patriotism (19) Virtue
Emotivism Native American Ethics Virtue Ethics
Empathy (20) Natural Law Von Wright, G. H. (19)
Employers and Employees Natural Resource Ownership (19) Voting, Ethics of (19)
Employment at Will Naturalism, Ethical (19) Vulnerability (18)
Ends and Means (19) Naturalistic Fallacy Wang Yangming (16)
Engineering Ethics Nature and the Natural War
Enhancement, Biomedical Needs War and Religion
Environment and Ecology in Religions Negligence Weakness of Will
Environmental Ethics Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism Weapons Research and Development (18)
Environmental Virtue Ethics Neuroethics Weber, Max
Epistemic Injustice (19) Niebuhr, Reinhold Welfarism (19)
Epistemology, Moral Niebhur, Richard H. (15) Weil, Simone
Equality (16) Nietzsche, Friedrich Well-being
Equality of Opportunity Nihilism Whewell, William (17 & 20)
Error Theory Non-Cognitivism Whistleblowing (19)
Ethical Investment Nonideal Ethics (17) White-Collar Crime
Ethical Issues in Teaching Non-Identity Problem (20) Why Be Moral
Ethics in the Hebrew Bible Non-Naturalism, Ethical Wilderness, Value of
Ethics of Aging Nonviolence in Religions (19) William of Ockham
Ethics of Belief (20) Normative Ethics (19) Williams, Bernard
Ethics of Competitive Sport Normativity Wisdom
Ethnography and Ethics (17) Nuclear Weapons Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Eudaimonism Nudging (18) Wolff, Christian (20)
Eugenics Nursing Ethics Wollaston, William (16)
Euthanasia (19) Objective Relativism Wollstonecraft, Mary
Euthyphro Dilemma Objective Theories of Well-Being (19) Work, Ethics of (20)
Evaluative vs. Deontic Concepts Objectification (19) World Hunger
Evil (19) Offense World Trade Organization
Evolution, Ethics and (19) Omissions (18) Worth/Dignity
Ewing, A.C. (19) Online Journalism Wu-wei (20)
Executive Compensation (20) Open Question Argument Wrong Kind of Reasons Problem
Existentialism Opportunity for Children and the Family (17) Wrongful Life
Experimental Ethics Oppression Xunzi
Expert Testimony, Ethics of (15) [Revised: 19] Organ Transplantation Zoos and Aquariums (18)
Expertise, Moral (19) Organic Unities Zhu Xi
Explanations, Moral Ortega y Gasset, José (19) Zhuangzi
Exploitation Ought  
Externalism, Motivational Ought Implies Can  
Fact-Value Distinction Overcriminalization (20)  
Fair Trade (19)