New Perspectives on Moral Change

Cecilie Eriksen is special consultant at National Center of Ethics, The Ministry of Health, Denmark. She is the author of Moral Change – Dynamics, Structure and Normativity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). She has further published on Wittgenstein and Løgstrup as well as  co-edited and contributed to volumes on topics such as law and legitimacy, modern work life, and contextual ethics.

“An original and far-reaching work that will excite both students and senior scholars, attracting a wide readership within and beyond anthropology and moral philosophy and prompting lively debate across multiple fields and specialisms.” • Susan Bayly, University of Cambridge“This volume is a valuable collection of texts around the undertheorized and crucial notion of moral change, which brings together anthropologists of ethics and moral philosophers. Such a book is needed and it would naturally find its place in the growing literature in the field of morality.” • Monica Heintz, Université Paris Nanterre

• Introduction: Moral Change in Philosophy and AnthropologyCecilie Eriksen and Nora HämäläinenThis chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the ERC via Utrecht University.Chapter 1. Moral Change Through the Lens of MarriageSusan MacDougallChapter 2. Queering ‘Ayb in the Urban Landscapes of AmmanMarie Rask Bjerre OdgaardChapter 3. Ordinary Possibility, Transcendent Immanence, and Responsive Ethics: A Philosophical Anthropology of the Small EventCheryl MattinglyChapter 4. Moral Revolutions, Value Change, and the Question of Moral ProgressJoel RobbinsChapter 5. Losing Selves: Moral Injury and the Changing Moral Economies of State-Sanctioned ViolenceElizabeth M. Bounds and Joseph Wiinikka-LydonChapter 6. Dementia Care Ethics, Social Ontology, and World-Open Care: Phenomenological MotifsRasmus DyringChapter 7. On Moral RevolutionsRobert BakerChapter 8. Moral Borderlands: Ethical Normativity in Liminal SpacesCecilie EriksenThis chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the ERC via Utrecht University.Chapter 9. Moral Change and Moral TruthNora HämäläinenChapter 10. The Problem of PietyCora DiamondChapter 11. Guiding Ethical Sentences, Moral Change, and Form(s) of LifeAnne-Marie Søndergaard ChristensenChapter 12. Two Historical Periods Within One Human BreastNiklas ForsbergConclusion: Morality in ActionNora HämäläinenIndex