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 demon...

Table of Contents:

• 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.