Philosophical Ethics and Practical Ethics:

The Philosophical Appendix to Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research,

Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Caroline Whitbeck

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Part 1. Some Implications of Recent Philosophical Ethics for Practical Ethics

Does Practical Ethics Require Foundationalism?

New Views of the Self or Person and the Importance of Empirical Investigation for Ethics

Against Restriction of the Moral Vocabulary

The Moral Vocabulary and the Distinctive Concerns of Particular Moral Communities

Summary & Conclusions

Part 2. How Applied Ethics Lost Track of Moral Problems

Ambiguity in Problem Situations

How Moral Problems Came to be Represented as Decision Problems

Practical Ethics and the Public Understanding of Moral Problems

Summary & Conclusions

Part 3. The Trouble with Dilemmas

Dilemmas, False and True, and Ethical Principles

Practical Wisdom and Moral Agents

Summary & Conclusions

See also: Table of Contents to Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research

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