
Jonathan Wolff on Political Bioethics (originally on Bioethics Bites)
Philosophy Bites
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The Consequences of Strategies for Allocating Resources
Some philosophers think if you only think hard enough, we're going to be able to get to the right single true answer. Others such as Norman Daniels have said that there are incommensurable values here. What we need in the end is a procedure that everyone can sign up to rather than a set of principles. So Norman Daniels has what he calls the notion of accounting for reasonableness. It has been adopted by Nice in this country and it's not crudely utilitarian.
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