Title | Reflective Equilibrium [electronic resource] : Essays in Honour of Robert Heeger / edited by Wibren van der Burg, Theo van Willigenburg |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1998 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4972-3 |
Descript | VIII, 291 p. online resource |
I. The Elements of Reflective Equilibrium -- Moral Principles: Authoritative Norms or Flexible Guidelines? -- Morally Relevant Facts: Particularism and Intuitionist Rationality -- Considered Judgements: Meaning, Community and Tradition -- Background Theories and Religious Beliefs: Their Role and Relation in Reflective Equilibrium -- Ideals and Ideal Theory: The Problem of Methodological Conservatism -- II. The Methodology of Reflective Equilibrium -- Rationality, Warrant and Reflective Equilibrium -- The Thinker and the Thinking Process: A Feminist Perspective on the Moral Faculty -- Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Justification of Moral Theory -- Your Intuition or Mine? -- III. The Scope of Reflective Equilibrium: Fundamental Views of Life and Religion -- Religious Models and Moral Principles -- Reflective Equilibrium and Cosmological Claims -- World Views, Value Change and Reflective Equilibrium -- IV. The Purposes of Reflective Equilibrium: Modelling Public Debate and Dialogue -- Reflective Equilibrium and Public Debate: How to Cast the Publicโs Web of Beliefs Broadly Enough -- Developing Public Morality: Between Practical Agreement and Intersubjective Reflective Equilibrium -- The Case of the Shared Values: An Example of a Socratic Dialogue -- V. Case Studies in Bioethics -- The โHerman Caseโ: The Usefulness of the Wide Reflective Equilibrium Model for Ethics Committees -- The Use of the Reflective Equilibrium Method in Normative Veterinary Ethics -- Infanticide in Reflective Equilibrium -- Reflective Equilibrium as a Normative-Empirical Model in Bioethics -- List of Contributors -- Name Index -- Tabula Gratulatorum