Talk:Descriptive ethics

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what is the difference between descriptive ethics and meta-ethics?

This is now explained Anarchia 01:07, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kholberg

Why is Kholberg on this page? Shoulden't this be an article about general descriptive ethics and value theory? Vistago 15:07, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Kohlberg can serve as a useful example of someone working in the field. Anarchia 01:07, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Connections to Social Sciences Besides Psychology

If the approach is empirical, then why wouldn't there be links to empirical work (if any) in appropriate articles in anthropology, evolutionary psychology, comparative religion and similar fields? DCDuring 22:04, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

It isn't always just empirical. Some philosophers who reject the is/ought distinction are described as doing descriptive ethics. This is not covered in the existing article. However: Yes to athropology, not so sure about evolutionary psychology (definitely involved in moral psyc, but not so much in descriptive ethics in my experience - perhaps because it tends to be theoretical?), I can see how comparative religion would be linked, but haven;t seen it done, which means nada given my background! This page desperately needs more work. However, it would be great if any new information added to it was clearly referenced, neutral and not original research - which takes time!Anarchia 22:42, 10 September 2007 (UTC)