AI Ethics as Applied Ethics

Scientific Certificate of Applied Ethics

Applied ethics is a major having a significant role in attracting the attention of the intellectuals and even the public readers regarding the importance of ethical discussions including discussions of the ethical philosophy. However, since only four decades have been passed from the contemporary approach of the scholars of ethics in this field, it is still considered to be a new and evolving d...

Coherence and applied ethics.

In order for a moral theory to support application it must be able to provide determinate answers to actual moral problems or, at the least, to significantly narrow acceptable options. It must also support the development of a genuine consensus, one that is disinterested, reasonable, and unbiased. I argue that theories concentrating on principles, or on rules, or on particular cases fail to mee...

Perspectives on Applied Ethics

Applied and Professional Ethics

The development of applied ethics in recent decades has had great significance for philosophy and society. In this article, I try to characterise this field of philosophical inquiry. I also discuss the relation of applied ethics to social policy and to professional ethics. In the first part, I address the following questions: (1) What is applied ethics? (2) When and why did applied ethics appea...

What Are Applied Ethics?

This paper explores the relationships that various applied ethics bear to each other, both in particular disciplines and more generally. The introductory section lays out the challenge of coming up with such an account and, drawing a parallel with the philosophy of science, offers that applied ethics may either be unified or disunified. The second section develops one simple account through whi...