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Arguments at cross-purposes: moral epistemology and medical ethics
Abstract
Different beliefs about the nature and justification of bioethics may reflect different assumptions in moral epistemology. Two alternative views (put forward by David Seedhouse and Michael H Kottow) are analysed and some speculative conclusions formed. The foundational questions raised here are by no means settled and deserve further attention.
- Moral epistemology
- medical ethics
- bioethical discourse
- philosophy
- methodology
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