Pragmatic Principles -- Methodological Pragmatism in the Principle-Based Approach to Bioethics.
In this paper it will be argued that Beauchamp and Childress' principle-based approach to bioethics has strongly pragmatic features. Drawing on the writings of William James. I first develop an understanding of methodological pragmatism as a method of justification. On the basis of Beauchamp's and C...
| Published in: | Journal of Medicine & Philosophy Vol. 28; no. 5/6; pp. 581 - 597 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
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