Reflective Equilibrium: Essays in Honour of Robert Heeger (Library of Ethics and Applied Philosophy)

Introduction (Wibren van der Burg and Theo van Willigenburg)......Page 2
PART I: THE ELEMENTS OF REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM......Page 27
Moral Principles: Authoritative Norms or Flexible Guidelines? (Marcel Verweij)......Page 28
Morally Relevant Facts: Particularism and Intuitionist Rationality (Theo van Willigenburg)......Page 40
Considered Judgments: Meaning, Community, and Tradition (Anton Vedder)......Page 54
Background Theories and Religious Beliefs: Their Role and Relation in Reflective Equilibrium (Ton van den Beld)......Page 72
Ideals and Ideal Theory: The Problem of Methodological Conservatism (Wibren van der Burg)......Page 88
PART II: THE METHODOLOGY OF REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM......Page 99
Rationality, Warrant, and Reflective Equilibrium (Eberhard Herrmann)......Page 100
The Thinker and the Thinking Process: A Feminist Perspective on the Moral Faculty (Marian Verkerk)......Page 112
Wide Reflective Equilibrium and the Justification of Moral Theory (Bo Petersson)......Page 124
Your Intuition or Mine? (Inez de Beaufort)......Page 132
PART III: THE SCOPE OF REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM: FUNDAMENTAL VIEWS OF LIFE AND RELIGION......Page 140
Religious Models and Moral Principles (Vincent Brummer)......Page 141
Reflective Equilibrium and Cosmological Claims (Carl Reinhold Brakenhielm)......Page 153
World Views, Value Change, and Reflective Equilibrium (Anders Jeffner)......Page 166
PART IV: THE PURPOSES OF REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM: MODELLING PUBLIC DEBATE AND DIALOGUE......Page 170
Reflective Equilibrium and Public Debate: How to Cast the Public's Web of Beliefs Widely Enough (Jan Vorstenbosch)......Page 171
Developing Public Morality: Between Practical Agreement and Intersubjective Reflective Equilibrium (Frans W. A. Brom)......Page 185
The Case of the Shared Values: An Example of a Socratic Dialogue (Jos Kessels)......Page 197
PART V: CASE STUDIES IN BIOETHICS......Page 210
The 'Herman Case': The Usefulness of the Wide Reflective Equilibrium Model for Ethics Committees (Egbert Schroten)......Page 211
The Use of the Reflective Equilibrium Method in Normative Veterinary Ethics (Bart Rutgers)......Page 224
Infanticide in Reflective Equilibrium? (Goran Collste)......Page 231
Reflective Equilibrium as a Normative-Empirical Model in Bioethics (Johannes J. M. van Delden and Ghislaine J. M. W. van Thiel)......Page 243
Bibliography......Page 252
Name Index......Page 268
Tabula Gratulatorum......Page 272