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Research in Applied Ethics: Problems and Perspectives

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The last few decades have seen a dramatic increase in concern with matters of ethics in all areas of public life. This ‘applied turn’ in ethics raises important issues not only of focus, but also of methodology. Sometimes a moral end or moral feature is designed into an institution or technology; sometimes a morally desirable outcome is the fortuitous, but unintended, consequence of an institutional arrangement or technological invention. If designing-in ethics is the new methodological orientation for applied ethics, globalisation is providing many of the practical ethical problems upon which to deploy this methodology.

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Miller, S. Research in Applied Ethics: Problems and Perspectives. Philosophia 37, 185–201 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-008-9128-6

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