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(2014) Experimental ethics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

The moral behavior of ethicists and the role of the philosopher

Eric Schwitzgebel

pp. 59-64

Professional ethicists appear to behave no differently than do non-ethicists of similar social background. However, ethicists also appear to embrace more stringent moral norms than do non-ethicists, at least on some issues. Part 1 will summarize the empirical evidence. Part 2 will discuss one possibly attractive response: that an ethicist's role is to espouse and defend moral norms, with no special obligation to live according to the norms she espouses and defends.

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DOI: 10.1057/9781137409805_5

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Schwitzgebel, E. (2014)., The moral behavior of ethicists and the role of the philosopher, in C. Luetge, H. Rusch & M. Uhl (eds.), Experimental ethics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 59-64.

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