Allen E. Buchanan

Aufenthalt

Mai/Juni 2012

Forschungsthema

»The Social Ethics of Believing«

Projektbeschreibung

My project is to deepen the theory of social moral epistemology I have begun to develop and use it to ground an account of the ethics of believing, with an emphasis on the importance of epistemic virtues and on relationships between moral virtues and epistemic virtues. The ultimate goal is a book entitled The Social Ethics of Believing. Two central themes of the project are (1) that both Moral and Political Philosophy and conventional moralities have neglected the ethics of believing and (2) that an adequate appreciation of the ethics of believing requires an approach to the virtues that emphasizes our epistemic dependency on social institutions and practices. The project will do much to remedy two deficiencies of mainstream social epistemology: the failure to develop an account of the interaction between individual virtues (epistemic and moral) and social practices and institutions; and the failure to address morally crucial beliefs and their role in behavior that can either facilitate or impede efforts to achieve justice, including human rights.

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)

• Beyond Humanity? The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011.
• Better Than Human: The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2011.
• Human Rights, Legitimacy, and the Use of Force: Selected Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009.
• Justice and Health Care: Selected Essays, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009.
• Justice, Legitimacy and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009.
• From Chance to Choice: Genetics [&] Justice, zusammen mit Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels und Daniel Winkler, Cambridge und New York: Cambridge University Press 2000.
• Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce from Sumter to Lithuana and Quebec, Boulder (Colo.): Westview Press 1991.
• Deciding for Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making, zusammen mit Dan W. Brock,Cambridge und New York: Cambridge University Press 2000.
• Marx and Justice: The Radical Critique of Liberalism, Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield 1982.