Applied Ethics

What is applied ethics? From a structural point of view, the first issue, in trying to answer this question, is whether applied ethics belongs under philosophy, as a sub-category in the way surely ethics is one (and in the way our own PhilPapers is organized). The alternative would be thinking that applied ethics has long emancipated itself from philosophy, transcending it not just to become its own discipline but also to include alternative methodological approaches, especially from the social sciences...