the rationality of deliberation and judgment in ethics /
First Statement of Responsibility
Barry Hoffmaster and Cliff Hooker.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
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The MIT Press,
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[2018]
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1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages)
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Basic bioethics
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; I Ethics and Reason; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Background: Clinical and Philosophical Orthodoxy in Genetic Counseling; 1.2 The Example: Real Ethical Decision Making after Genetic Counseling; 1.3 Philosophical Implications; 1.4 Four Lessons; 2 The Difficulties of Applied Ethics; 2.1 Indeterminacy: What Does a Norm Mean?; 2.2 Conflicts: Which Norm Prevails?; 2.3 From Substance to Process; 2.4 The Scope of Morality and the Limits of Formal Bioethics; 2.5 Conclusion; 3 The Problems Generalized, Diagnosed, and Reframed in a New Account of Reason.
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3.1 The Parallel Difficulties of Applied Science3.2 Confronting the Dominant Analytic Tradition; 3.3 Naturalism Frames a Conception of Reason Suitable to the Pursuit of Science, Ethics, and Life in General; 3.4 Conclusion; 4 The Problems Resolved in a New Account of Reason; 4.1 Skilled Deliberative Judgment; 4.2 Four Resources for Rationality; 4.3 Characterizing Rationality; 4.4 Conclusion; 5 The Process of Ethical Resolution: Using the Resources of Nonformal Reason; 5.1 The Rationality and Morality of Dying Children; 5.2 Using the Resources of Nonformal Reason in the Vignettes.
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5.3 Moral Effectiveness: Moving beyond Principles5.4 Conclusion; II Ethics as Design; 6 Ethics as Design and Its Two Distinctive Methods; 6.1 Whitbeck on Ethics as Design; 6.2 The Deduction-from-Principles Account of Compromise: A Critique; 6.3 Moral Compromise; 6.4 Reflective Equilibrium Liberated, Extended, and Enriched; 6.5 A Shift from Principles to Values; 6.6 Conclusion; 7 Designing Deliberation; 7.1 Deliberation as Dramatic Rehearsal; 7.2 Deliberation as Narrative; 7.3 Deliberation Shared; 7.4 Institutionalized Deliberation; 7.5 Conclusion.
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8 Designing Practices, Institutions, and Processes8.1 Fights, Games, and Debates; 8.2 Game Theory; 8.3 Matching Problems and Processes; 8.4 Conclusion; 9 Designing Policies; 9.1 Designing an Ethical Policy; 9.2 Designing a Process for Policy Making; 9.3 Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.