Eric Schwitzgebel on the Ethical Behaviour of Ethics Professors

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  Would you expect professors of moral philosophy to be more ethical than other people if it turned out that they didn't behave any better?

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  Should that worry us?

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  Would it open them up to the charge of hypocrisy?

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  The best man to answer these questions is Eric Switzgable from UC Riverside.

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  Eric Schwitzschebel, welcome to philosophy Bites.

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  Thanks for having me.

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  The topic we're going to focus on is the ethical behaviour of ethics professors.

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  Now, it seems quite reasonable upfront to think that people who study ethics ought, on the whole, to behave reasonably ethically.

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  Yeah, I guess you'd think that.

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  I guess that's what we were attempting to discover.

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  So when you say discover, this sort of implies that you're doing research, you're doing some kind of empirical research.

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  Yeah, that's right.

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  Most of this is collaborative with other people, especially Josh Rust.

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  We've been looking empirically at how ethicists actually behave.

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  How do you do that?

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