Overview: Combines ethical theory, applied ethics, and social science survey results, to create a useful moral code for decision making.Creates an axiology that incorporates the best ideas from how people actuaMost philosophers still like to feel that they have a special subject matter, well insulated from anything that the social scientists, and scientists in general, have to tell them. That is not healthy for philosophy; and it is all too likely to lead to an ethics that continues, as of old, to plead for its ultimates-the fact that one is totally ineffectual being decently concealed by an i
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