Reflective Equilibrium

Essays in Honour of Robert Heeger

AvWibren van der Burg,Theo van Willigenburg

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Robert Heeger has been professor of ethics at Utrecht University since 1977, both at the Faculty of Theology and at the Faculty of Philosophy. Moreover, he was one of the first moral philosophers in the Netherlands, and even in Europe, to be involved in environmental ethics and in animal and veterinary ethics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-10-14
Mått:155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:464 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy
Antal sidor:291
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789401060875

Utforska kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Innehållsförteckning

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 Public’s 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 ‘Herman Case’: 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.