The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, 11 Volume Set

The new edition of the definitive reference work on ethics, featuring hundreds of new and revised entries

Unmatched in scholarship and scope, the International Encyclopedia of Ethics is the most comprehensive and authoritative ethics resource of its kind. Available online or as an eleven-volume print set, the Encyclopedia espouses a broad vision of ethics that creates links to many other disciplines, including medicine, technology studies, computer science, business, religion, and law. Entries range in size from shorter definitions and biographies to extended treatments of major topics, and have been blind-reviewed by both the editorial team and an independent review board to ensure exceptional balance and accuracy throughout.

Building on its established strengths, the second edition of the Encyclopedia covers topics, movements, arguments, and figures in normative ethics, metaethics, and applied ethics, containing over 850 fully-cross-referenced A-Z entries which emphasize the richness and diversity of the field. New to this edition are more than 300 original and updated entries which add coverage of contemporary topics including voting ethics, artificial intelligence, moral uncertainty, police bias, narcissism, structural injustice, bullying, biopolitics, legal moralism, and intellectual virtue. In its state-of-the-art electronic form, each entry is hyperlinked to other entries and to electronic editions of the renowned Blackwell Companions and Guides ¯ in all, more than 1,500 scholarly articles. The electronic version will continue to receive annual updates, continuing the legacy of the International Encyclopedia of Ethics as the preferred resource for research-active scholars, students, and general readers wanting to engage with ethics in their professional lives.

This work is also available as an online resource at www.internationalencyclopediaofethics.com

Hugh LaFollette is Cole Emeritus Professor in Ethics at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, and Editor-in-Chief of the International Encyclopedia of Ethics. He is author of three books, most recently The Practice of Ethics, as well as of numerous articles. He has also edited several anthologies, including Ethics in Practice, Fifth Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2020) and the Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2013).  

John Deigh is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of The Sources of Moral Agency (1996), Emotions, Values, and the Law (2008) and An Introduction to Ethics (2010). 

Sarah Stroud is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has published widely on topics spanning moral theory, metaethics, moral psychology, and related areas. 

Volume I

Editors vii

Contributors xi

Alphabetical List of Entries xxvii

List of Entries by Topic xxxviii

Introduction to the Second Edition lxxxii

Introduction to the First Edition lxxxiii

Acknowledgments lxxxviii

A 1

Volume II

B–C 521

Volume III

C–D 1169

Volume IV

E–F 1811

Volume V

G–H 2473

Volume VI

I–L 3073

Volume VII

M–N 3735

Volume VIII

O–P 4447

Volume IX

Q–R 5149

Volume X

S–T 5667

Volume XI

U–Z 6347

Index 000

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