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Topics Currently Included in the International Encyclopedia of Ethics |
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White: currently published. New: light yellow; Revised: light green; Redone from scratch:light blue. Pub date in parenthesis. |
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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) |