Methodology and Moral Philosophy

Methodology and Moral Philosophy
Author: Jussi Suikkanen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-10-31
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0429839235

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Many ethicists either accept the reflective equilibrium method or think that anything goes in ethical theorizing as long as the results are plausible. The aim of this book is to advance methodological thinking in ethics beyond these common attitudes and to raise new methodological questions about how moral philosophy should be done. What are we entitled to assume as the starting-point of our ethical inquiry? What is the role of empirical sciences in ethics? Is there just one general method for doing moral philosophy or should different questions in moral philosophy be answered in different ways? Are there argumentative structures and strategies that we should be encouraged to use or typical argumentative patterns that we should avoid? This volume brings together leading moral philosophers to consider these questions. The chapters investigate the prospects of empirical ethics, outline new methods of ethics, evaluate recent methodological advances, and explore whether different areas of moral philosophy are methodologically continuous or independent of one another. The aim of Methodology and Moral Philosophy is to make moral philosophers more self-aware and reflective of the way in which they do moral philosophy and also to encourage them to take part in methodological debates.

The Methods of Ethics

The Methods of Ethics
Author: Henry Sidgwick
Publisher: Gale and the British Library
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1874
Genre: Ethics
ISBN:

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology
Author: Herman Cappelen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 769
Release: 2016
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199668779

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This is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodology. A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done. The first part is devoted to broad traditions and approaches to philosophical methodology (including logical empiricism, phenomenology, and ordinary language philosophy). The entries in the second part address topics in philosophical methodology, such as intuitions, conceptual analysis, and transcendental arguments. The third part of the book is devoted to essays about the interconnections between philosophy and neighbouring fields, including those of mathematics, psychology, literature and film, and neuroscience.

The Methods of Ethics

The Methods of Ethics
Author: Henry Sidgwick
Publisher: Gale and the British Library
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1874
Genre: Ethics
ISBN:

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Ethics Done Right

Ethics Done Right
Author: Elijah Millgram
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2005-07-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521839433

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Examines how practical reasoning can be put into the service of ethical and moral theory.

Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry

Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry
Author: Guy Widdershoven
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2008-02-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199297363

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Psychiatry presents a unique array of difficult ethical questions. A major challenge is to approach psychiatry in a way that does justice to the real ethical issues. This book show how ethics can engage more closely with the reality of psychiatric practice and how empirical methodologies from the social sciences can help foster this link.

The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory
Author: David Copp
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2006-01-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0195147790

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The Handbook is a comprehensive reference work in ethical theory consisting of commissioned articles by leading scholars. The first part treats meta-ethics and the second part normative ethical theory. As with all the Oxford Handbooks, the collection is designed to achieve three goals: exposition of central ideas, criticism of other approaches, and defenses of distinct points of view.

The Confluence of Philosophy and Law in Applied Ethics

The Confluence of Philosophy and Law in Applied Ethics
Author: Norbert Paulo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2016-05-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1137557346

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The law serves a function that is not often taken seriously enough by ethicists, namely practicability. A consequence of practicability is that law requires elaborated and explicit methodologies that determine how to do things with norms. This consequence forms the core idea behind this book, which employs methods from legal theory to inform and examine debates on methodology in applied ethics, particularly bioethics. It is argued that almost all legal methods have counterparts in applied ethics, which indicates that much can be gained from comparative study of the two. The author first outlines methods as used in legal theory, focusing on deductive reasoning with statutes as well as analogical reasoning with precedent cases. He then examines three representative kinds of contemporary ethical theories, Beauchamp and Childress’s principlism, Jonsen and Toulmin’s casuistry, and two versions of consequentialism—Singer’s preference utilitarianism and Hooker’s rule-consequentialism—with regards to their methods. These examinations lead to the Morisprudence Model for methods in applied ethics.

Unbelievable Errors

Unbelievable Errors
Author: Bart Streumer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2017-08-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191088951

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In Unbelievable Errors, Bart Streumer defends an error theory about all normative judgements: not just moral judgements, but also judgements about reasons for action, judgements about reasons for belief, and instrumental normative judgements. This theory says that these judgements are beliefs that ascribe normative properties, but that these properties do not exist. It therefore entails that all normative judgements are false. Streumer also argues, however, that we cannot believe this error theory. This may seem to be a problem for the theory, but he argues that it is not. Instead, he argues, our inability to believe this error theory makes the theory more likely to be true, since it undermines objections to the theory, it makes it harder to reject the arguments for the theory, and it undermines revisionary alternatives to the theory. Streumer then sketches how certain other philosophical views can be defended in a similar way, and how philosophers should modify their method if there can be true theories that we cannot believe. He concludes that to make philosophical progress, we should sharply distinguish the truth of a theory from our ability to believe it

Three Methods of Ethics

Three Methods of Ethics
Author: Marcia W. Baron
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1997-12-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780631194354

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During the past decade ethical theory has been in a lively state of development, and three basic approaches to ethics - Kantian ethics, consequentialism, and virtue ethics - have assumed positions of particular prominence.