{"id":13102,"date":"2005-11-01T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13102"},"modified":"2023-02-01T14:11:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T22:11:28","slug":"a-new-rejection-of-moral-expertise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13102","title":{"rendered":"A new rejection of moral expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Christopher Cowley<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"159\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/medicine-health-philosophy.jpg\" alt=\"Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy\" class=\"wp-image-10181\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>There seem to be two clearly-defined camps in the debate over the problem of moral expertise. On the one hand are the &#8220;Professionals&#8221;, who reject the possibility entirely, usually because of the intractable diversity of ethical beliefs. On the other hand are the &#8220;Ethicists&#8221;, who criticise the Professionals for merely stipulating science as the most appropriate paradigm for discussions of expertise. While the subject matter and methodology of good ethical thinking is certainly different from that of good clinical thinking, they argue, this is no reason for rejecting the possibility of a distinctive kind of expertise in ethics, usually based on the idea of good justification. I want to argue that both are incorrect, partly because of the reasons given by one group against the other, but more importantly because both neglect what is most distinctive about ethics: that it is personal in a very specific way, without collapsing into relativism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Cowley C. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs11019-005-1588-x\">A new rejection of moral expertise<\/a>. Med Health Care &amp; Phil. 2005 Nov;8(3):273-279. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Cowley AbstractThere seem to be two clearly-defined camps in the debate over the problem of moral expertise. On the one hand are the &#8220;Professionals&#8221;, who reject the possibility entirely, usually because of the intractable diversity of ethical beliefs. On the other hand are the &#8220;Ethicists&#8221;, who criticise the Professionals for merely stipulating science as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A new rejection of moral expertise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,2,1401,684],"tags":[54],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-13102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-journal-article","category-professionalism","category-science","tag-christopher-cowley"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>A new rejection of moral expertise - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ethics is personal in a very specific way, without falling into relativism. 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