Applied Ethics

Edited by Ezio Di Nucci (University of Copenhagen)
Assistant editors: Heather Stewart, Yiying Peng
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Summary What is applied ethics? From a structural point of view, the first issue, in trying to answer this question, is whether applied ethics belongs under philosophy, as a sub-category in the way surely ethics is one (and in the way our own PhilPapers is organized). The alternative would be thinking that applied ethics has long emancipated itself from philosophy, transcending it not just to become its own discipline but also to include alternative methodological approaches, especially from the social sciences. Google Scholar, for example, lists philosophy and bioethics independently, the former under humanities the latter under medicine, and guess which category is larger? These kinds of taxonomy questions are indeed boring, but they can still have crucial consequences, because surely philosophy does not belong within the social sciences, so it would be important if applied ethics did instead. On the other hand, this particular understanding of applied ethics might be confusing it with empirical ethics - and one could insist that even though the topics of applied ethics are practical, its methods continue to be purely philosophical. An example will do most of our work here: asking clinicians their views on assisted suicide should probably count as empirical ethics and definitely social sciences, not philosophy. In that respect, it might not count as applied ethics proper - even though PhilPapers might still list it, on a charitable inclusive understanding of the discipline. 
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