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Professional ethicists appear to behave no differently than do non-ethicists of similar social background. However, ethicists also appear to embrace more stringent moral norms than do non-ethicists, at least on some issues. Part 1 will summarize the empirical evidence. Part 2 will discuss one possibly attractive response: that an ethicist’s role is to espouse and defend moral norms, with no special obligation to live according to the norms she espouses and defends.
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Schwitzgebel, E. (2014). The Moral Behavior of Ethicists and the Role of the Philosopher. In: Luetge, C., Rusch, H., Uhl, M. (eds) Experimental Ethics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137409805_5
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