DEFECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM

• Authors: Frederick Danny
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author argues that the conception of reflective equilibrium that is generally accepted in contemporary philosophy is defective and should be replaced with a conception of fruitful reflective disequilibrium which prohibits ad hoc manoeuvres, encourages new approaches, and eschews all justification in favour of continuous improvement. He suggests how the conception of fruitful disequilibrium can be applied more effectively to moral enquiry, to encourage genuine progress in moral knowledge, if we make moral theory empirically testable by adopting a meta-ethical postulate which is independently plausible.

Keywords

EN

DEFECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM; EMPIRICAL TESTABILITY; KNOWLEDGE; JUSTIFICATION; REFLECTIVE EQUILIBRIUM

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 443 – 459

Contributors

author

Frederick Danny

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