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ArticleThe Journal of medicine and philosophy2016

Keeping it Ethically Real.

Dien Ho

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Article in The Journal of medicine and philosophy, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Two Troubling Trends in the Conversation Over Whether Clinical Ethics Consultants Have Ethics Expertise.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2018
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  3. Against Inflationary Views of Ethics Expertise.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2018
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  4. The "Ethics" Expertise in Clinical Ethics Consultation.The Journal of medicine and philosophy · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Dien HoMCPHS University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA dien.ho@mcphs.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many clinical ethicists have argued that ethics expertise is impossible. Their skeptical argument usually rests on the assumptions that to be an ethics expert is to know the correct moral conclusions, which can only be arrived at by having the correct ethical theories. In this paper, I argue that this skeptical argument is unsound. To wit, ordinary ethical deliberations do not require the appeal to ethical or meta-ethical theories. Instead, by agreeing to resolve moral differences by appealing to reasons, the participants agree to the Default Principle-a substantive rule that tells us how to adjudicate an ethical disagreement. The Default Principle also entails a commitment to arguments by parity, and together these two methodological approaches allow us to make genuine moral progress without assuming any deep ethical principles. Ethical expertise, in one sense, is thus the ability and knowledge to deploy the Default Principle and arguments by parity.

Indexed as

Bioethical IssuesEthics, ClinicalEthics, ProfessionalClinical CompetenceDissent and DisputesEthics, MedicalHumansclinical ethicsethics consultationethics expertisemedical ethics

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PMID27256847
PMCPMC4986002

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