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This study aimed to identify trends in the quantity of published systematic and semi-systematic reviews of normative ethical or “mixed (empirical and ” normative ethical) literature, the academic affiliations of correspond-ing authors, and other review characteristics.
Applied ethics is an area of moral philosophy that focuses on concrete moral issues, including such matters as abortion, capital punishment, civil disobedience, drug use, family responsibilities, and professional ethics. This article defends a variety of positions in both normative moral theory and metaethics.
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What methods do reviews of normative ethics literature use for search, selection, analysis, and synthesis? In-depth results from a systematic review of reviews. DOI 10.1186/s13643-017-0661-x. RES EAR CH Open Access. What methods do reviews of normative ethics literature use for search, selection, analysis, and synthesis?
become known under the generic label: applied ethics. And indeed it is true that applied ethics is in part intended to free academic ethics from the dead hand of a broadly unsympathetic philosophical tradition. This tradition, de rived from a basic empiricism and inspired by the positivist goal of bringing philosophy into line with science ...
- Brenda Almond
- 1998
Oct 3, 2016 · While reviews of ethics literature are increasingly published, their reporting quality for analysis and synthesis of normative information should be improved. Guiding questions are: What was the applied ethical approach and technical procedure for identifying and extracting the relevant normative information units?
- Marcel Mertz, Hannes Kahrass, Daniel Strech
- 2016
The Applied Ethicists are like the players. They “get their hands [or feet] dirty”. They take the general rules of normative ethics and “play” under them. What interests them is how we should act in specific areas. For example, how should we deal with issues like meat-eating, euthanasia or stealing? (pp. 1–4) References. Fisher, A ...
normative principles to practical problems and how normative principles are to guide action. The language of application (as in ‘applied ethics’) is problematic in two respects, she argues, since this language implies misleadingly that the relation between normative principles and real cases is analogous to the relation
