Can There Be Such a Thing as Ethical Expertise?

Analyse & Kritik 34 (2):237-249 (2012)
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Abstract

Ethics in the 21st century is threatened by a split between practical philosophy as a full-blown academic discipline and applied ethics as pragmatic problem-solving inside the political process. The place of the professional philosopher sitting on medical and other ‘ethics committees’ as an ‘ethical expert’ is somewhere in between. But where exactly? How is his role defined? Is the expertise he brings to bear on practical decisions of a purely technical or of a substantially moral kind? These issues are discussed both ‘from the outside’ and ‘from the inside’. First, some of the theoretical controversies surrounding ‘ethical expertise’ are discussed on the background of a rapidly growing literature in the field. These are then related to the realities of commission work as they confront the academic ethicist in practice

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Dieter Birnbacher
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Moral Experts.Peter Singer - 1972 - Analysis 32 (4):115 - 117.

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