Pragmatic Judgments in Direct Patient Care

​Prof. Dr. Bernhard Bleyer holds the Chair for Theological Ethics at the University of Passau and is the head of the master’s program in Caritas Science and of the Institute of Applied Ethics in Economics and Education (Ethik WAW). He received his PhD in Catholic Theology at the University of Regensburg (2007) and wrote his post-doctoral thesis (habilitation) in the field of Moral Theology at the Catholic Private University Linz (2019).

• Introduction.- Part I: Birthplace USA – Clinical Ethics Consultation and Pragmatism.- Three stages in the development of clinical ethics consultation.- Balance after three stages.- Part II: A Theory of Concrete Judgment – The Influence of Pragmatism on the Idea of Clinical Ethics Consultation.- Basic features of an ethical theory of classical pragmatism.- Applied pragmatic ethics in clinical ethics consultation.- Pragmatic justification of clinical decisions – an attempt at a response.- Balance sheet and answer.