Difference between revisions of "Paper Ideas: Qualitative Research and ELSI"
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| + | #This is clearly an instance of is not leading to ought. | ||
| + | #*But my larger concern is not that is cannot lead necessarily to ought, but rather than when "is" is intended to inform the "ought", we need a framework for understanding how that translation should be made | ||
| + | #The growth of social scientific methods and virtue ethics both seemed to have grown out of the same discontent with principlist ethics. | ||
| + | #*Compare some of the critiques waged by both against that approach | ||
| + | #Virtue ethics provides a way to understand how empirical data lead to practice. | ||
Revision as of 09:44, 24 April 2011
- Public Opinion Polling and Normative Claims
- The problem of democracy, the tyranny of the majority
- This is clearly an instance of is not leading to ought.
- But my larger concern is not that is cannot lead necessarily to ought, but rather than when "is" is intended to inform the "ought", we need a framework for understanding how that translation should be made
- The growth of social scientific methods and virtue ethics both seemed to have grown out of the same discontent with principlist ethics.
- Compare some of the critiques waged by both against that approach
- Virtue ethics provides a way to understand how empirical data lead to practice.