- Title Pages
- Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, Law and Medical Humanities
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Series editors’ forewords
- Acknowledgements
-
1 Editors’ introduction -
2 Thought and memory -
3 On moral nose -
4 Hanging around with Jackson -
5 The Unbearable desire for explicitness and rationality in bioethics -
6 Moral epistemology and the survival lottery -
7 Harris and the criticism of the status quo -
8 The natural as a moral category -
9 Making sense of human dignity -
10 Why we should save the anthropocentric person -
11 Why the reasonable man is not always right? -
12 Why the body matters -
13 Harris’s principle of justice in health care -
14 Eqalyty revisited -
15 The safety of the people and the case against invasive health promotion -
16 Could we reduce racism with one easy dip? -
17 Against mumps, Meursault, Mcdonald’s and Marlboro -
18 Killing and allowing to die -
19 Response to and reflections on chapters 3–18 - Bibliography
- Index
Moral epistemology and the survival lottery
Moral epistemology and the survival lottery
- Chapter:
- (p.64) 6 Moral epistemology and the survival lottery
- Source:
- From reason to practice in bioethics
- Author(s):
Torbjörn Tännsjö
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
Thought experiments of the kind ingeniously construed by John Harris are excellent tools if we want to gain deep moral knowledge. We construct such examples so that they can function as crucial tests between different moral theories, yielding conflicting implications in the examples, and we make an inference to the best moral explanation of the content of our considered moral intuitions about the cases. This provides us with a justified belief in the theory providing the best explanation of the content of our intuitions.
Keywords: Thought examples, Inference to the best explanation, Moral intuitions, Justified belief
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- Title Pages
- Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, Law and Medical Humanities
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Series editors’ forewords
- Acknowledgements
-
1 Editors’ introduction -
2 Thought and memory -
3 On moral nose -
4 Hanging around with Jackson -
5 The Unbearable desire for explicitness and rationality in bioethics -
6 Moral epistemology and the survival lottery -
7 Harris and the criticism of the status quo -
8 The natural as a moral category -
9 Making sense of human dignity -
10 Why we should save the anthropocentric person -
11 Why the reasonable man is not always right? -
12 Why the body matters -
13 Harris’s principle of justice in health care -
14 Eqalyty revisited -
15 The safety of the people and the case against invasive health promotion -
16 Could we reduce racism with one easy dip? -
17 Against mumps, Meursault, Mcdonald’s and Marlboro -
18 Killing and allowing to die -
19 Response to and reflections on chapters 3–18 - Bibliography
- Index
