Moral Philosophy and Ethics: The Demarcation Line

The Necessity of Considering Folk Ethics in Moral Philosophy

Contemporary ethics and moral philosophy need a kind of revision due to their negligence in human moral capacities, ordinary life, and humans’ expectations of ethics. The assumptions and presuppositions of ethics result in their current unsatisfactory status. In this paper, we first explore and criticize those presuppositions. Then, instead of introducing ideal presuppositions of ethics, we int...

Empirical ethics, moral philosophy, and the democracy problem

A central issue for the development of summary measures of population health (SMPH), as well as for their use in the prioritization of health care resources, is the source of the value and ethical assumptions employed. Some, not surprisingly they are often social scientists, hold that any ethical premises should be empirically grounded, derived through empirical research on the actual values an...

Symposium on ethics and public health Epidemiology and moral philosophy

To an increasing extent ethical controversies affect and sometimes obstruct public health work and epidemiological research. In order to improve communication between the concernedparties a modelfor identification and analysis of ethical conflicts in individual-based research has been worked out in co-operation between epidemiologists and moral philosophers. The model has two dimensions. One di...

Taking Ethics Seriously: Economics and Contemporary Moral Philosophy

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Moral Reasoning in Applied Ethics: The Place of Moral Philosophy in the Ethical Discussion Concerning Reproductive Medicine and Human Genetics