APPROPRIATE METHODOLOGIES FOR EMPIRICAL BIOETHICS: IT'S ALL RELATIVE
APPROPRIATE METHODOLOGIES FOR EMPIRICAL BIOETHICS: IT'S ALL RELATIVE
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8519.2009.01715.x
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
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影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Draper, Heather
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作者：
Ives, Jonathan;Draper, Heather
在这篇文章中，我们区分哲学生命伦理学（PB），描述性政策导向的生命伦理学（DPOB）和规范性政策导向的生命伦理学（NPOB）。我们认为，找到一个适当的方法，结合经验数据和道德理论取决于什么目的的研究努力，而且，在大多数情况下，这种结合是只需要NPOB。在简要讨论了辩论周围的是/应该的问题，并建议双方的这场辩论是误解对方（即一方将其视为一个概念问题，而另一方将其视为一个经验性的主张），我们概述和捍卫NPOB的方法论方法的基础上，我们已经开展了一个项目，探索父亲的权利和责任的规范基础上的工作。我们认为，鉴于道德直觉在道德理论中已经发挥了突出的作用，一个适当的方式来整合经验数据和哲学生命伦理学是利用经验收集奠定直觉的基础，在NPOB伦理推理。我们提出的方法涉及修改长期以来的传统不干预定性数据收集，结合一种形式的反思平衡，理论和数据的需求给予同等的权重和务实的妥协达成。
In this article we distinguish between philosophical bioethics (PB), descriptive policy orientated bioethics (DPOB) and normative policy oriented bioethics (NPOB). We argue that finding an appropriate methodology for combining empirical data and moral theory depends on what the aims of the research endeavour are, and that, for the most part, this combination is only required for NPOB.After briefly discussing the debate around the is/ought problem, and suggesting that both sides of this debate are misunderstanding one another (i.e. one side treats it as a conceptual problem, whilst the other treats it as an empirical claim), we outline and defend a methodological approach to NPOB based on work we have carried out on a project exploring the normative foundations of paternal rights and responsibilities. We suggest that given the prominent role already played by moral intuition in moral theory, one appropriate way to integrate empirical data and philosophical bioethics is to utilize empirically gathered lay intuition as the foundation for ethical reasoning in NPOB. The method we propose involves a modification of a long-established tradition on non-intervention in qualitative data gathering, combined with a form of reflective equilibrium where the demands of theory and data are given equal weight and a pragmatic compromise reached.