Empirical Ethics, Context-Sensitivity, and Contextualism  

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Musschenga, Albert W.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 30 no. 5 (Oct. 2005), page 467-490.
Topik: Context-Sensitivity; (Epistemic) Contextualism; Empirical Ethics
Fulltext: MM80V30N5P467.pdf (160.28KB)

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.15 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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In medical ethics, business ethics, and some branches of political philosophy (multi-culturalism, issues of just allocation, and equitable distribution) the literature increasingly combines insights from ethics and the social sciences. Some authors in medical ethics even speak of a new phase in the history of ethics, hailing “empirical ethics” as a logical next step in the development of practical ethics after the turn to “applied ethics.” The name empirical ethics is ill-chosen because of its associations with “descriptive ethics.” Unlike descriptive ethics, however, empirical ethics aims to be both descriptive and normative. The first question on which I focus is what kind of empirical research is used by empirical ethics and for which purposes. I argue that the ultimate aim of all empirical ethics is to improve the context-sensitivity of ethics. The second question is whether empirical ethics is essentially connected with specific positions in meta-ethics. I show that in some kinds of meta-ethical theories, which I categorize as broad contextualist theories, there is an intrinsic need for connecting normative ethics with empirical social research. But context-sensitivity is a goal that can be aimed for from any meta-ethical position.

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