Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy
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Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy

On Experimentalism in Ethics

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy

On Experimentalism in Ethics

About this book

In Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy, Eric Weber argues for an experimentalist approach to moral theory in addressing practical problems in public policy. The experimentalist approach begins moral inquiry by examining public problems and then makes use of the tools of philosophy and intelligent inquiry to alleviate them. Part I surveys the uses of practical philosophy and answers criticisms - including religious challenges - of the approach, presenting a number of areas in which philosophers' intellectual efforts can prove valuable for resolving public conflicts. Part II presents a new approach to experimentalism in moral theory, based on the insights of John Dewey's pragmatism. Focusing on the elements of good public inquiry and the experimentalist attitude, Weber discusses ways of thinking about the effective construction and reconstruction of particular problems, including practical problems of public policy prioritization. Finally, in Part III the book examines real-world examples in which the experimentalist approach to ethics proves useful, including instances of "bandwidth theft" and the controversies surrounding activist judges in the US Supreme Court.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781441144812
eBook ISBN
9781441174185
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1 Introduction
  8. Part One Philosophy and Religion in Public Policy
  9. Chapter 2 On Applying Ethics: Who’s Afraid of Plato’s Cave?
  10. Chapter 3 Religion, Public Reason, and Humanism: Paul Kurtz on Fallibilism and Ethics
  11. Part Two Experimentalism, Problem Construction, and Priorities
  12. Chapter 4 What Experimentalism Means in Ethics
  13. Chapter 5 Construction, Art, and Politics: On Creative Leadership
  14. Chapter 6 Philosophy and Public Policy Prioritization
  15. Part Three New Technologies and Experiments in Judging
  16. Chapter 7 “Stop him! He stole my internet connection!”: On the Historical Origins of Moral Concepts
  17. Chapter 8 Activist or Active Judges
  18. Chapter 9 Conclusion
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index