Problems with Theory, Problems with Practice: Wide Reflective Equilibrium and Bioethics

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy St John
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Wide Reflective Equilibrium

scholarly journals In the Region of Middle Axioms: Judicial Dialogue as Wide Reflective Equilibrium and Mid-level Principles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Juan Moreso ◽  
Chiara Valentini
Keyword(s):  
Public Reason ◽  
Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Wide Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Overlapping Consensus ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
Comprehensive Doctrines ◽  
Constitutional Adjudication

AbstractThis article addresses the use of foreign law in constitutional adjudication. We draw on the ideas of wide reflective equilibrium and public reason in order to defend an engagement model of comparative adjudication. According to this model, the judicial use of foreign law is justified if it proceeds by testing and mutually adjusting the principles and rulings of our constitutional doctrines against reasonable alternatives, as represented by the principles and rulings of other reasonable doctrines. By this, a court points to a wide reflective equilibrium, justifying its own interpretations with reasonable arguments, i.e. arguments that are acceptable from the perspectives defined by other constitutional doctrines, as endorsed by other courts. The point of a judicial engagement of this sort is to work out an overlap between different, reasonable, doctrines in the judicial forum, as part of a liberal forum of public reason. Here, the exercise of public reason filters out the premises of comprehensive doctrines so as to leave us in the region of an overlapping consensus: a region of mid-level principles that can be shared, notwithstanding the fact of legal pluralism.

On Richard Brandt’s “The Science of Man and Wide Reflective Equilibrium”

Ethics ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 1136-1141
Author(s):  
Peter Railton
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Wide Reflective Equilibrium

Intuitions, Biases, and Extra‐Wide Reflective Equilibrium

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (5) ◽  
pp. 674-684
Author(s):  
Samuel Director
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Wide Reflective Equilibrium

Gli approcci alle valutazioni etiche nei processi di Health Technology Assessment

2008 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Sacchini ◽  
Pietro Refolo ◽  
Andrea Virdis
Keyword(s):  
Health Technology Assessment ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Health Technology ◽  
Coherence Analysis ◽  
European Network ◽  
Wide Reflective Equilibrium ◽  
Social Shaping Of Technology ◽  
Sono Stati ◽  
Social Shaping

Come emerge da uno studio, apparso nel 2007, dello European network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA), il quadro degli approcci attualmente utilizzati dalle varie agenzie per eseguire le valutazioni di tipo etico nei processi di Health Technology assessment (HTA), risulta abbastanza variegato. Oltre a quelli, per così dire “generali”, coma la Casistica, il Coerentismo, il Principalismo, il Modellamento sociale della tecnologia, l’Equilibrio riflessivo ampliato e l’Approccio interattivo-partecipativo alla valutazione delle tecnologie sanitarie, sono stati segnalati alcuni approcci locali, fra cui il Personalismo ontologicamente fondato. L’articolo intende effettuare una esplicitazione di questi approcci, cercando, al contempo, di integrarla con dei cenni sulla loro genesi, qualche spunto critico ed alcune osservazioni sulla loro applicazione nei processi di HTA. ---------- As noted by a research of the European network for Health Technology Assessment (EUnetHTA) published in 2007, the actually used approaches picture in different agencies to elaborate ethical analysis in health technology assessment (HTA) processes is enough variegated. Beyond the so-called “general” approaches, as Casuistry, Coherence analysis, Principlism, Social shaping of technology (SST), Wide reflective equilibrium (WRE) and Interactiveparticipatory HTA approach (iHTA), some local approaches have been indicated, among those there is the ontologically founded Personalism. The article intends to realize an explanation of these approaches, trying, at the same time, to integrate it with some notes on their genesis, some critical points and some observations on their application to HTA process.

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