The Routledge Companion to Environmental Ethics is comprised of sixty original essays, which focus on how ethical questions intersect with real and pressing policy issues. Rather than overviewing abstract conceptual categories, the authors focus on specific controversies involving the environment. Clearly written contributions on Fossil Fuels, Urban Sustainability, Novel Ecosystems, and many other subjects make accessible these issues' empirical and political dimensions as well as their theoretical underpinnings. Written to be accessible for undergraduates and general readers, but...

Focused on mapping out contemporary and future domains in philosophy of technology, this volume serves as an excellent, forward-looking resource in the field and in cognate areas of study.　 The 32 chapters, all of them appearing in print here for the first time, were written by both established scholars and fresh voices.　 They cover topics ranging from data discrimination and engineering design, to art and technology, space junk, and beyond.　 Spaces for the Future: A Companion to Philosophy of Technology is structured in six parts: (1) Ethical Space and...

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science is an outstanding guide to the major themes, movements, debates, and topics in the philosophy of social science. It includes thirty-seven newly written chapters, by many of the leading scholars in the field, as well as a comprehensive introduction by the editors. Insofar as possible, the material in this volume is presented in accessible language, with an eye toward undergraduate and graduate students who may be coming to some of this material for the first time. Scholars too will appreciate this clarity, along with the chance to read...