An empirical perspective on moral expertise: Evidence from a global study of philosophers.
Considerable attention in bioethics has been devoted to moral expertise and its implications for handling applied moral problems. The existence and nature of moral expertise has been a contested topic, and particularly, whether philosophers are moral experts. In this study, we put the question of ph...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 36; no. 9; pp. 926 - 936 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2022
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=159764002&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 159764002 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 02699702 6PJ jtl: Bioethics issn: 02699702 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Nov2022 vid: 36 iid: 9 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 159764002 10.1111/bioe.13079 ppf: 926 ppct: 10 formats: tig: atl: An empirical perspective on moral expertise: Evidence from a global study of philosophers. aug: au: Niv, Yarden Sulitzeanu‐Kenan, Raanan affil: Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Federmann School of Public Policy, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel su: Ethics Judgment (Psychology) Ethical decision making Philosophy Bioethics Conceptual structures sug: subj: Ethics Judgment (Psychology) Ethical decision making Philosophy Bioethics Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology) Conceptual structures keyword: experimental philosophy metaphilosophy moral expertise moral judgment moral understanding experimental philosophy metaphilosophy moral expertise moral judgment moral understanding ab: Considerable attention in bioethics has been devoted to moral expertise and its implications for handling applied moral problems. The existence and nature of moral expertise has been a contested topic, and particularly, whether philosophers are moral experts. In this study, we put the question of philosophers' moral expertise in a wider context, utilizing a novel and global study among 4,087 philosophers from 96 countries. We find that despite the skepticism in recent literature, the vast majority of philosophers do believe in moral expertise and in the contribution of philosophical training and experience to its acquisition. Yet, they still differ on what philosophers' moral expertise consists of. While they widely accept that philosophers possess superior analytic abilities regarding moral matters, they diverge on whether they also possess improved ability to judge moral problems. Nonetheless, most philosophers in our sample believe that philosophers possess an improved ability to both analyze and judge moral problems and that they commonly see these two capacities as going hand in hand. We also point at significant associations between personal and professional attributes and philosophers' beliefs, such as age, working in the field of moral philosophy, public involvement, and association with the analytic tradition. We discuss the implications of these findings for the debate about moral expertise. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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