This entry summarizes an emerging subdiscipline of both empirical bioethics and
experimental philosophy (“x-phi”) which has variously been referred to as experimental …

There is a rich tradition in bioethics of gathering empirical data to inform, supplement, or test
the implications of normative ethical analysis. To this end, bioethicists have drawn on …

This paper explores an emerging sub-field of both empirical bioethics and experimental
philosophy, which has been called “experimental philosophical bioethics”(bioxphi). As an …

John McMillan (2018) argues that “good bioethics” requires us to clarify and distinguish
bioethical concepts in order to generate arguments that meet the needs of patients …

In bioethics, the contrast between normative and empirical approaches has commonly been
aligned with disciplinary differences: bioethics defines itself as a form of normative inquiry …

In “The Place of Philosophy in Bioethics Today,” Blumenthal-Barby and colleagues argue
that philosophy is indispensable to the field of bioethics (Blumenthal-Barby et al. 2022) …

Pavarini et al.(2021) should be congratulated to their highly valuable contribution shedding
light on methodological innovation for bioethics in the digital era. I see a great potential in …

I speak from the borderlands of philosophical bioethics (my primary discipline) and empirical
social science research (my secondary discipline). As such, I strongly agree with Kon's …

In a thought-provoking target article, Kon (2009) seeks to answer the question of how
empirical data might inform normative bioethics by organizing four categories of research …

Empirical moral psychology is sometimes dismissed as normatively insignificant because it
plays no decisive role in settling ethical disputes. But that conclusion, even if it is valid for …