Charting Moral Psychology's Significance for Bioethics: Routes to Bioethical Progress, its Limits, and Lessons from Moral Philosophy.
Empirical moral psychology is sometimes dismissed as normatively insignificant because it plays no decisive role in settling ethical disputes. But that conclusion, even if it is valid for normative ethics, does not extend to bioethics. First, in contrast to normative ethics, bioethics can legitimate...
| Published in: | Diametros: An Online Journal of Philosophy Vol. 17; no. 64; pp. 36 - 56 |
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