Re-Reasoning Ethics: The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics (Basic Bioethics)
Hoffmaster, Barry,Hooker, Cliff
ISBN 10: 0262037696 ISBN 13: 9780262037693
Published by The MIT Press, 2018
Used
hardcover
From
Bellwetherbooks, McKeesport, PA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 17 April 2007
This specific item is no longer available.
About this Item
Description:
LIKE NEW!!! Has a red or black remainder mark on bottom/exterior edge of pages. Seller Inventory # MIT-HC-LN-0262037696
Synopsis:
How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.
In Re-Reasoning Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster and Cliff Hooker enhance and empower ethics by adopting a non-formal paradigm of rational deliberation as intelligent problem-solving and a complementary non-formal paradigm of ethical deliberation as problem-solving design to promote human flourishing. The non-formal conception of reason produces broader and richer ethical understandings of human situations, not the simple, constrained depictions provided by moral theories and their logical applications in medical ethics and bioethics. Instead, it delivers and vindicates the moral judgment that complex, contextual, and dynamic situations require.
Hoffmaster and Hooker demonstrate how this more expansive rationality operates with examples, first in science and then in ethics. Non-formal reason brings rationality not just to the empirical world of science but also to the empirical realities of human lives. Among the many real cases they present is that of how women at risk of having children with genetic conditions decide whether to try to become pregnant. These women do not apply the formal principle of maximizing expected utility (as advised by genetic counselors) and instead imagine scenarios of what their lives could be like with an affected child and assess whether they could accept the worst of these scenarios.
Hoffmaster and Hooker explain how moral compromise and a liberated, extended, and enriched reflective equilibrium expand and augment rational ethical deliberation and how that deliberation can rationally design ethical practices, institutions, and policies.
About the Authors:
Barry Hoffmaster, a bioethicist, is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario.
Cliff Hooker, a philosopher of science, is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Bibliographic Details
Title: Re-Reasoning Ethics: The Rationality of ...
Publisher: The MIT Press
Publication Date: 2018
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Fine
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
ReReasoning Ethics The Rationa
Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00076207490
Stock Image
Re-Reasoning Ethics: The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics (Basic Bioethics)
Seller: World of Books (was SecondSale), Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00076207988
Seller Image
Re-Reasoning Ethics: The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in
Seller: Book Grocer, Tullamarine, VIC, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardback. Barry Hoffmaster (Professor, University of Western Ontario), MIT Press Ltd. How developing a more expansive, non-formal conception of reason produces richer ethical understandings of human situations, explored and illustrated with many real examples.In Re-Reasoning Ethics, Barry Hoffmaster and Cliff Hooker enhance and empower ethics by adopting a non-formal paradigm of rational deliberation as intelligent problem-solving and a complementary non-formal paradigm of ethical deliberation as problem-solving design to promote human flourishing. The non-formal conception of reason produces broader and richer ethical understandings of human situations, not the simple, constrained depictions provided by moral theories and their logical applications in medical ethics and bioethics. Instead, it delivers and vindicates the moral judgment that complex, contextual, and dynamic situations require.Hoffmaster and Hooker demonstrate how this more expansive rationality operates with examples, first in science and then in ethics. Non-formal reason brings rationality not just to the empirical world of science but also to the empirical realities of human lives. Among the many real cases they present is that of how women at risk of having children with genetic conditions decide whether to try to become pregnant. These women do not apply the formal principle of maximizing expected utility (as advised by genetic counselors) and instead imagine scenarios of what their lives could be like with an affected child and assess whether they could accept the worst of these scenarios.Hoffmaster and Hooker explain how moral compromise and a liberated, extended, and enriched reflective equilibrium expand and augment rational ethical deliberation and how that deliberation can rationally design ethical practices, institutions, and policies. Hardback. Seller Inventory # 9780262037693-SECONDHAND
Stock Image
Re-Reasoning Ethics: The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics (Basic Bioethics)
Seller: Bellwetherbooks, McKeesport, PA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
hardcover. Condition: Fine. LIKE NEW!!! Has a red or black remainder mark on bottom/exterior edge of pages. Seller Inventory # mon0000005691
Stock Image
Re-Reasoning Ethics: The Rationality of Deliberation and Judgment in Ethics (Basic Bioethics)
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy. Seller Inventory # 1820574