Healthy Skepticism: The Emperor has Very Few Clothes

Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 22 (4):365-371 (1997)
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The role of an expert witness in ethics, as part of a legal proceeding, is examined in this essay. The essay argues that the use of such expertise rests on confusions about normative and non-normative ethics compounded by misunderstandings about the challenges of moral argument in secular, morally pluralistic societies

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