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Empirical Ethics in Action: Lessons From Two Empirical Studies in Nursing Ethics

open access: yesMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2004
Despite the burgeoning of publications in nursing ethics, only more recently has empirical evidence on nursing ethics been published. How nursing ethics can be empirically studied as well as enriched by empirical data will be the focus of this paper. Two empirical studies will be briefly presented and their contribution to ethics discussed.
Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé   +1 more
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Integrated empirical ethics: Loss of normativity?

open access: yesMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2004
An important discussion in contemporary ethics concerns the relevance of empirical research for ethics. Specifically, two crucial questions pertain, respectively, to the possibility of inferring normative statements from descriptive statements, and to the danger of a loss of normativity if normative statements should be based on empirical research ...
van der Scheer, Lieke, Widdershoven, Guy
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Empirical Ethics as Dialogical Practice.

Bioethics, 2009
ABSTRACTIn this article, we present a dialogical approach to empirical ethics, based upon hermeneutic ethics and responsive evaluation. Hermeneutic ethics regards experience as the concrete source of moral wisdom. In order to gain a good understanding of moral issues, concrete detailed experiences and perspectives need to be exchanged.
Guy Widdershoven   +2 more
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Empirical Ethics, Context-Sensitivity, and Contextualism

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2005
In medical ethics, business ethics, and some branches of political philosophy (multi-culturalism, issues of just allocation, and equitable distribution) the literature increasingly combines insights from ethics and the social sciences. Some authors in medical ethics even speak of a new phase in the history of ethics, hailing "empirical ethics" as a ...
Albert W Musschenga
exaly   +3 more sources

Empirical Ethics and Its Alleged Meta-Ethical Fallacies.

Bioethics, 2009
ABSTRACTThis paper analyses the concept of empirical ethics as well as three meta‐ethical fallacies that empirical ethics is said to face: the is‐ought problem, the naturalistic fallacy and violation of the fact‐value distinction. Moreover, it answers the question of whether empirical ethics (necessarily) commits these three basic meta‐ethical ...
Rob B M de Vries, Bert Gordijn
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RELIGIOUS ETHICS AND EMPIRICAL ETHICS

Journal of Religious Ethics, 2021
Abstract In recent decades, cognitive and behavioral scientists have learned a great deal about how people think and behave. On the most general level, there is a basic consensus that many judgments, including ethical judgments, are made by intuitive, even unconscious, impulses. This basic insight has opened the door to a wide variety
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