World Ethics: The New Agenda

Nigel Dower discusses the nature of world ethics by identifying different ways of thinking about ethics and includes a survey of different ways of thinking ethically about international and global relations. He also considers several theories of world ethics in the context of various specific issues such as war and peace, world poverty, the environment and the United Nations.

Nigel Dower is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, and an academic consultant on 'cosmopolitan agendas'. He is author of An Introduction to Global Citizenship (EUP, 2003) and co-editor of Global Citizenship: A Critical Reader (EUP, 2002). He is series editor of Edinburgh Studies in World Ethics. From 2002 to 2006 he was President of the International Development Ethics Association, and in January 2007 he received an Honorary Doctorate (DTheol) from the University of Uppsala for his work on global ethics.