Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality between Facts and Norms

This volume provides an overview of the most recent developments in empirical investigations of morality and assesses their impact and importance for ethical thinking. It involves contributions of scholars both from philosophy, theology and empirical scie

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Markus Christen Carel van Schaik Johannes Fischer Markus Huppenbauer Carmen Tanner Editors

Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality between Facts and Norms

Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality between Facts and Norms

LIBRARY OF ETHICS AND APPLIED PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 32

Editor in Chief Marcus Düwell, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL

Editorial Board Deryck Beyleveld, Durham University, Durham, U.K. David Copp, University of Florida, USA Nancy Fraser, New School for Social Research, New York, USA Martin van Hees, Groningen University, Netherlands Thomas Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA Samuel Kerstein, University of Maryland, College Park, USA Will Kymlicka, Queens University, Ontario, Canada Philippe Van Parijs, Louvaine-la-Neuve (Belgium) en Harvard, USA Qui Renzong, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Peter Schaber, Ethikzentrum, University of Zürich, Switzerland Thomas Schmidt, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

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Markus Christen • Carel van Schaik Johannes Fischer • Markus Huppenbauer Carmen Tanner Editors

Empirically Informed Ethics: Morality between Facts and Norms

Editors Markus Christen Institute of Biomedical Ethics University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland

Carel van Schaik Anthropological Institute and Museum University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland

Johannes Fischer Institute of Social Ethics University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland

Markus Huppenbauer University Priority Program Ethics University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland

Carmen Tanner Department of Banking and Finance Center for Responsibility in Finance University of Zurich Zurich, Switzerland

ISSN 1387-6678 ISBN 978-3-319-01368-8 ISBN 978-3-319-01369-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01369-5 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013949768 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names