A Scientific Approach to Ethics Developing Greater Respect for Ethics in Business and Society /

• Main Author: Storchevoy, Maxim (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Business ethics.; Business Ethics.

 This book suggests that normative ethics should be developed as a social science, and that this will improve its reputation in business and society. Storchevoy defines four criteria of a good scientific method (clear definitions, correct logic, empirical verification, accurate measurement) and demonstrates how normative ethics can make use of them. He provides a historical review of the methodological evolution of normative ethics and outlines how it was moving in a nonlinear way towards this scientific development by the 16th century. A Scientific Approach to Ethics challenges the reputation of ethics among many within business and business schools as unscientific and argues that it can come to be seen as a scientific discipline able to reveal universal moral truth. 

 1 Why Science? What Science? -- 2 A Scientific Approach to Normative Ethics -- 3 Evolutionary Model of Man -- 4 Normative Ethics Before the Twentieth Century -- 5 Moore, Vienna Circle and Meta-Ethics -- 6 Contractualism and Rational Choice -- 7 Other Approaches.