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What Are Applied Ethics?

Allhoff, Fritz

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This paper explores the relationships that various applied ethics bear to each other, both in particular disciplines and more generally. The introductory section lays out the challenge of coming up with such an account and, drawing a parallel with the philosophy of science, offers that applied ethics may either be unified or disunified. The second section develops one simple account through which applied ethics are unified, vis-à-vis ethical theory. However, this is not taken to be a satisfying...[Show more]

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Date published: 2011
Type: Journal article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/60806
Source: Science and Engineering Ethics
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-010-9200-z

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