Reflective Equilibrium: Individual or Public?
The paper explores whether the method of reflective equilibrium (RE) in ethics and political philosophy should be individual or public in character. I defend a modestly public conception of RE, in which public opinion is used specifically as a source of considered judgements about cases. Public opin...
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| description | The paper explores whether the method of reflective equilibrium (RE) in ethics and political philosophy should be individual or public in character. I defend a modestly public conception of RE, in which public opinion is used specifically as a source of considered judgements about cases. Public opinion is superior to philosophical opinion in delivering judgements that are untainted by principled commitments. A case-based approach also mitigates the methodological problems that commonly confront efforts to integrate philosophy with the investigation of popular attitudes. This conception of RE is situated in relation to alternative accounts, including those of Daniels, Rawls and Wolff and de-Shalit. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:9188bff0-0c43-4560-8420-5f4ee7c044b92022-03-26T23:19:22ZReflective Equilibrium: Individual or Public?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:9188bff0-0c43-4560-8420-5f4ee7c044b9Symplectic Elements at OxfordPhilosophy Documentation Center2016Baderin, AThe paper explores whether the method of reflective equilibrium (RE) in ethics and political philosophy should be individual or public in character. I defend a modestly public conception of RE, in which public opinion is used specifically as a source of considered judgements about cases. Public opinion is superior to philosophical opinion in delivering judgements that are untainted by principled commitments. A case-based approach also mitigates the methodological problems that commonly confront efforts to integrate philosophy with the investigation of popular attitudes. This conception of RE is situated in relation to alternative accounts, including those of Daniels, Rawls and Wolff and de-Shalit. |
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