Empirical and Armchair Ethics

Utilitas 24 (4):467-482 (2012)
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Abstract

In a recent paper, Michael Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve present a novel argument against prioritarianism. The argument takes its starting point from empirical surveys on people's preferences in health care resource allocation problems. In this article, I first question whether the empirical findings support their argument, and then I make some general points about the use of ‘empirical ethics’ in ethical theory.

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Greg Bognar
Stockholm University