Lexington Books
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978-1-4985-3680-6 • Hardback • February 2018 • $122.00 • (£94.00)
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Rachel Haliburton is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Sudbury.
Introduction
Chapter One: Would You Kill the Fat Man? Trolleyolgy, Stories, and the Expressive-Collaborative Construction of Morality
Chapter Two: The Ethics of Murder
Chapter Three: Moral Technology and the Development of Virtue-Based Autonomy
Chapter Four: Why Humans Tell Stories: The Place of the Moral Imagination in Ethics
Chapter Five: Exploring the Wasteland
Bibliography
The Ethical Detective: Moral Philosophy and Detective Fiction, does a stellar job of not only making the often- complex facets of the discipline accessible to a wide readership but also showing how this ancient discipline can offer critics of popular culture valuable new avenues for their own analytical writing and teaching. . . . For philosophical neophytes, Haliburton’s book is the perfect introduction, marrying a keen interest in detective fiction with a thoughtful and accessible writing style that demystifies contemporary ethics and shows how moral philosophy can be, as she writes in her conclusion, made to matter in the everyday.
— Clues: A Journal of Detection