The possibility of ethical expertise
| Autor: | Bruce D. Weinstein |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Virtue media_common.quotation_subject Medicine (miscellaneous) Meta-ethics Performative utterance Morals Professional Competence Professional Role Ethicists medicine Humans Ethics Medical Sociology Child media_common Social Responsibility Nursing ethics Research Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Medicine Epistemology Issues ethics and legal aspects Ethics Clinical Philosophy of medicine Ethical Theory Medical ethics Ethical expertise |
| Zdroj: | Theoretical medicine. 15(1) |
| ISSN: | 0167-9902 |
| Popis: | Can we legitimately speak of ethics experts? Recent literature in philosophy and medical ethics addresses this important question but does not offer a satisfactory answer. Part of the problem is the absence of an examination of what it means to be an 'expert' in general. I therefore begin by reviewing my analysis of expertise which appeared earlier in this journal. We speak of two kinds of experts: persons whose expertise is in virtue of what they know ('epistemic' expertise), or what they do ('performative' expertise). Applying this analysis to the domain of ethics, I argue that we may speak of ethical expertise in three epistemic senses: a) expertise in descriptive ethics, b) expertise in metaethics, c) expertise in normative ethics, and in a performative sense: d) expertise in living a good life. I conclude with a brief description of some social roles of ethics experts. |
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