A scientific approach to ethics : developing greater respect for ethics in business and society
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A scientific approach to ethics : developing greater respect for ethics in business and society
（Palgrave pivot）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book suggests that normative ethics should be developed as a social science, and that this will improve its reputation in business and society. Storchevoy defines four criteria of a good scientific method (clear definitions, correct logic, empirical verification, accurate measurement) and demonstrates how normative ethics can make use of them. He provides a historical review of the methodological evolution of normative ethics and outlines how it was moving in a nonlinear way towards this scientific development by the 16th century. A Scientific Approach to Ethics challenges the reputation of ethics among many within business and business schools as unscientific and argues that it can come to be seen as a scientific discipline able to reveal universal moral truth.
Table of Contents
1 Why Science? What Science?2 A Scientific Approach to Normative Ethics
3 Evolutionary Model of Man
4 Normative Ethics Before the Twentieth Century
5 Moore, Vienna Circle, and Meta-Ethics
6 Contractarianism and Rational Choice
7 Other Approaches
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