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The place of ethics in a unified behavioral science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2007

Peter Danielson
Affiliation:
W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada. pad@ethics.ubc.cahttp://www.ethics.ubc.ca/people/danielson/
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Abstract

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Behavioral science, unified in the way Gintis proposes, should affect ethics, which also finds itself in “disarray,” in three ways. First, it raises the standards. Second, it removes the easy targets of economic and sociobiological selfishness. Third, it provides methods, in particular the close coupling of theory and experiments, to construct a better ethics.

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2007 Cambridge University Press