A Scientific Approach to Ethics - Developing Greater Respect for Ethics in Business and Society

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 16^th 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.

List of contents

1 Why Science? What Science?.- 2 A Scientific Approach to Normative Ethics.- 3 Evolutionary Model of Man.- 4 Normative Ethics Before the Twentieth Century.- 5 Moore, Vienna Circle and Meta-Ethics.- 6 Contractualism and Rational Choice.- 7 Other Approaches

About the author

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).

Summary

Outlines a new approach to develop business ethics as a truly scientific discipline 
Critiques the current methodologies in business ethics
Provides a genuine cross-over between philosophy and business management

Product details

• Authors: Maxim Storchevoy
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783319887159
• ISBN: 978-3-31-988715-9
• No. of pages: 147
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 222 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 147 p. 1 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; C, Business and Management, Business ethics & social responsibility, scientific method, rational choice, Business Ethics, Management science, Meta-Ethics, Normative Ethics, Virtue Ethics, contractarianism