Ethical pluralism without complementarity

FitzPatrick, William J.

Ethical pluralism without complementarity

dc.contributor	Virginia Tech	en
dc.contributor.author	FitzPatrick, William J.	en
dc.date.accessed	2014-01-31	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-02-18T16:35:10Z	en
dc.date.available	2014-02-18T16:35:10Z	en
dc.date.issued	2004	en
dc.description.abstract	Grinnell, Bishop, and McCullough (2002) have proposed extending Bohr's notion of complementarity from the realm of quantum physics to that of bioethics, arguing that many ethical disputes cannot in principle be resolved. On this view, we should give up the aim of reaching all-things-considered moral verdicts on a variety of disputed questions, settling instead for a holism of irreducibly complementary perspectives. I discuss a number of difficulties with this proposal, and argue that the desire for inclusiveness that motivates it is properly captured through a different approach to ethical pluralism already familiar in moral philosophy, which does allow for resolution.	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.citation	Fitzpatrick, W. J. (2004). Ethical pluralism without complementarity. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 47(2), 181-188. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2004.0027	en
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2004.0027	en
dc.identifier.issn	0031-5982	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/25466	en
dc.identifier.url	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pbm/summary/v047/47.2fitzpatrick.html	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
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dc.title	Ethical pluralism without complementarity	en
dc.title.serial	Perspectives in Biology and Medicine	en
dc.type	Article - Refereed	en
dc.type.dcmitype	Text	en

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