Psychology, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK.
Department of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
J Med Ethics. 2023 Nov 23;49(12):850-851. doi: 10.1136/jme-2023-108958.
In we argued that medical and ethical modes of thought are not different in kind but different aspects of a situation. One of the consequences of this argument is that the requirement for or benefits of normative moral theorising in bioethics is undercut. In response, Wagner has argued that normative moral theories should be reconceived as models. Wagner's argument seems to be that once reconceived as models, the rationale for moral theorising, undercut by our arguments in will be re-established because we will see those moral-theories-now-rebranded-as-models as serving a role akin to the role models serve in some of the natural sciences. In this response to Wagner, we provide two arguments against Wagner's proposal. We call these arguments the Turner-Cicourel Challenge and the Question Begging Challenge.
在 中，我们认为医学和伦理思维模式在本质上没有区别，而是一种情况的不同方面。这一论点的结果之一是，生物伦理学中规范性道德理论的要求或好处被削弱了。对此，瓦格纳认为，规范性道德理论应该被重新构想为模型。瓦格纳的论点似乎是，一旦被重新构想为模型，我们在 中提出的、削弱道德理论基础的理由就会重新确立，因为我们将看到这些现在被重新贴上“模型”标签的道德理论在某种程度上类似于模型在某些自然科学中所起的作用。在对瓦格纳的回应中，我们提出了两个反对瓦格纳提议的论点。我们称这两个论点为特纳-西库雷尔挑战和循环论证挑战。
