1 — something that modern philosophy is generally confused about — and something that the very notion of "applied' ethics confuses. My suggestion is that we have much to learn from the example of the Hastings Center (Briarcliff, N.Y.), with respect to handling problems of professional ethics. My assumptions are, first, that philosophers — as Alasdair Maclntyre has long insisted — for the most part confuse the ethical issues they would illuminate by endeavoring to supply theoretical solutions to practical problems, and, second, that this confusion is rooted in an erroneous notion of how concepts function, namely, in the idea that concepts have meaning prior to their application." /> Professional ethics "applies" nothing - Janik Allan | sdvig press