A Scientific Approach to Ethics
Developing Greater Respect for Ethics in Business and Society
Authors: Storchevoy, Maxim
Free Preview- Outlines a new approach to develop business ethics as a truly scientific discipline
- Provides a genuine cross-over between philosophy and business management
- Argues that a scientific normative ethics will see increased respect among business students
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Maxim Storchevoy is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Strategic and International Management at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg University, Russia. He has a background in economics and teaches Business Ethics and Contract Theory for Managers. In 2016, he became a founding director of the Russian Business Ethics Network, a chapter of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN).
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Why Science? What Science?
Pages 1-8
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A Scientific Approach to Normative Ethics
Pages 9-22
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Evolutionary Model of Man
Pages 23-36
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Normative Ethics Before the Twentieth Century
Pages 37-77
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Moore, Vienna Circle, and Meta-Ethics
Pages 79-94
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- A Scientific Approach to Ethics
- Book Subtitle
- Developing Greater Respect for Ethics in Business and Society
- Authors
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- Maxim Storchevoy
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-69113-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-69113-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-69112-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-88715-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 147
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
