Justice and Justification

Reflective Equilibrium in Theory and Practice

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ID10696868
AuthorsChristopher Mcmahon (0000-0002-3753-006X), Christopher J McMahon (0009-0005-3494-459X)
Year1998
Volume107
Issue3
Pages449
Publication date1998-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofJustice and Justification: Reflective Equilibrium in Theory and Practice, Douglas MacLean, 2010
VenueThe Philosophical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8108 • E-ISSN: 1558-1470
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2998446
OpenAlexW2019195308
LanguageEN

We all have beliefs, even strong convictions, about what is just and fair in our social arrangements. How should these beliefs and the theories of justice that incorporate them guide our thinking about practical matters of justice? This wide-ranging collection of essays by one of the foremost medical ethicists in the USA explores the claim that justification in ethics, whether of matters of theory or practice, involves achieving coherence between our moral and non-moral beliefs. Amongst the practical issues addressed in the volume are the design of health-care institutions, the distribution of goods between the old and the young, and fairness in hiring and firing. In combining ethical theory and practical ethics this volume will prove especially valuable to philosophers concerned with ethics and applied ethics, political theorists, bioethicists, and others involved in the study of public policy

Analytic philosophy · Contemporary philosophy · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · General interest · Neoclassical economics · Reflective equilibrium · Sociology · Ethics in medical practice · Philosophy

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