TY  - BOOK
AU  - Welch,John R.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Moral Strata: Another Approach to Reflective Equilibrium 
T2  - Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science,
SN  - 9783319080130
AV  - BJ1-1725 
U1  - 170 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Philosophy (General)
KW  - Ethics
KW  - Operations research
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Operation Research/Decision Theory
KW  - Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
N1  - Preface -- Chapter 1 Discursive Strata -- Chapter 2 Saving the Moral Phenomena -- Chapter 3 Comparative Decision Theory -- Chapter 4 Working with Moral Means -- Chapter 5 Securing Our Moral Ends -- Chapter 6 Remedies for Reflective Disequilibrium -- Index. 
N2  - This volume recreates the received notion of reflective equilibrium. It reconfigures reflective equilibrium as both a cognitive ideal and a method for approximating this ideal. The ideal of reflective equilibrium is restructured using the concept of discursive strata, which are formed by sentences and differentiated by function. Sentences that perform the same kind of linguistic function constitute a stratum. The book shows how moral discourse can be analyzed into phenomenal, instrumental, and teleological strata, and the ideal of reflective equilibrium reworked in these terms. In addition, the work strengthens the method of reflective equilibrium by harnessing the resources of decision theory and inductive logic. It launches a comparative version of decision theory and employs this framework as a guide to moral theory choice. It also recruits quantitative inductive logic to inform a standard of inductive cogency. When used in tandem with comparative decision theory, this standard can aid in the effort to turn the undesirable condition of reflective disequilibrium into reflective equilibrium
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08013-0
ER  -