Moral coherence and value pluralism
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Philosophy paper on moral coherence, systematicity, and value pluralism; scientific reasoning appears only as an analogy, so the object is moral epistemology rather than research practice.
This philosophical paper concerns moral reasoning and only uses scientific reasoning as an analogy, not as its object.
Moral philosophy on value pluralism and coherence; science is only an analogy, not the object.
Abstract
This paper addresses the question of what value pluralism tells us about the pursuit of moral coherence as a method of moral reasoning. I focus on the status of the norm of ‘systematicity, ’ or the demand that our principles be as few and as simple as possible. I argue that, given certain descriptive facts about the pluralistic ways we value, epistemic ways of supporting a systematicity norm do not succeed. Because it is sometimes suggested that coherence functions in moral reasoning as it does in scientific reasoning, my argument considers analogies and disanalogies between moral reasoning and scientific reasoning.
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- Venue
- Canadian Journal of Philosophy
- Topic
- Ethics in medical practice
- Field
- Health Professions
- Canadian institutions
- University of Waterloo
- Funders
- —
- Keywords
- EpistemologyPluralism (philosophy)Moral reasoningCoherence (philosophical gambling strategy)Norm (philosophy)Argument (complex analysis)SociologyPsychologyPhilosophyMathematics
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