Moral Strata Another Approach to Reflective Equilibrium /

• Main Author: Welch, John R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, 49
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Ethics.; Mathematics.; Social sciences.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

This volume recreates the received notion of reflective equilibrium. It reconfigures reflective equilibrium as both a cognitive ideal and a method for approximating this ideal. The ideal of reflective equilibrium is restructured using the concept of discursive strata, which are formed by sentences a...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Chapter 1 Discursive Strata
• Chapter 2 Saving the Moral Phenomena
• Chapter 3 Comparative Decision Theory
• Chapter 4 Working with Moral Means
• Chapter 5 Securing Our Moral Ends
• Chapter 6 Remedies for Reflective Disequilibrium
• Index. .