In Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy, Eric Weber argues
for an experimentalist approach to moral theory in addressing
practical problems in public policy. The experimentalist approach
begins moral inquiry by examining public problems and then makes
use of the tools of philosophy and intelligent inquiry to alleviate
them.
Part I surveys the uses of practical philosophy and answers
criticisms - including religious challenges - of the approach,
presenting a number of areas in which philosophers' intellectual
efforts can prove valuable for resolving public conflicts.
Part II presents a new approach to experimentalism in moral
theory, based on the insights of John Dewey's pragmatism. Focusing
on the elements of good public inquiry and the experimentalist
attitude, Weber discusses ways of thinking about the effective
construction and reconstruction of particular problems, including
practical problems of public policy prioritization.
Finally, in Part III the book examines real-world examples in
which the experimentalist approach to ethics proves useful,
including instances of "bandwidth theft" and the controversies
surrounding activist judges in the US Supreme Court.
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