Epistemic and ethical responsibility during the pandemic

IF 1 Q4 ETHICS

Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.2478/ebce-2021-0017

A. Klimková

{"title":"Epistemic and ethical responsibility during the pandemic","authors":"A. Klimková","doi":"10.2478/ebce-2021-0017","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Intellectual (specialised) knowledge is omnipresent in human lives and decisions. We are constantly trying to make good and correct decisions. However, responsible decision-making is characterised by rather difficult epistemic conditions. It applies all the more during the pandemic when decisions require not only specialised knowledge in a number of disciplines, scientific consensus, and participants from different fields, but also responsibility and respect for moral principles in order to ensure that the human rights of all groups are observed. Pandemic measures are created by politicians, healthcare policy-makers, and epidemiologists. However, what is the role of ethics as a moral philosophy and experts in ethics? Experts in ethics and philosophy are carefully scrutinising political decisions. Levy and Savulescu (2020) have claimed that Ethicists and philosophers are not epistemically arrogant if they question policy responses. They played an important role in the creation of a reliable consensus. This study analyses epistemic and moral responsibility, their similarities, analogies, and differences. Are they interconnected? What is their relationship and how can they be filled with actual content during the pandemic?","PeriodicalId":53173,"journal":{"name":"Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe)","volume":"79 1","pages":"117 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2021-0017","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ETHICS","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract Intellectual (specialised) knowledge is omnipresent in human lives and decisions. We are constantly trying to make good and correct decisions. However, responsible decision-making is characterised by rather difficult epistemic conditions. It applies all the more during the pandemic when decisions require not only specialised knowledge in a number of disciplines, scientific consensus, and participants from different fields, but also responsibility and respect for moral principles in order to ensure that the human rights of all groups are observed. Pandemic measures are created by politicians, healthcare policy-makers, and epidemiologists. However, what is the role of ethics as a moral philosophy and experts in ethics? Experts in ethics and philosophy are carefully scrutinising political decisions. Levy and Savulescu (2020) have claimed that Ethicists and philosophers are not epistemically arrogant if they question policy responses. They played an important role in the creation of a reliable consensus. This study analyses epistemic and moral responsibility, their similarities, analogies, and differences. Are they interconnected? What is their relationship and how can they be filled with actual content during the pandemic?

查看原文本刊更多论文

大流行期间的认知和道德责任

知识(专业)知识在人类生活和决策中无处不在。我们一直在努力做出正确的决定。然而，负责任的决策的特点是相当困难的认识条件。在大流行病期间，它尤其适用，因为决策不仅需要若干学科的专业知识、科学共识和来自不同领域的参与者，而且还需要责任和尊重道德原则，以确保所有群体的人权得到遵守。大流行措施由政治家、卫生保健决策者和流行病学家制定。然而，伦理学作为一种道德哲学和伦理学专家的作用是什么?伦理和哲学专家正在仔细审查政治决策。Levy和Savulescu(2020)声称，如果伦理学家和哲学家质疑政策反应，他们在认识论上并不傲慢。它们在建立可靠的协商一致意见方面发挥了重要作用。本研究分析认知责任与道德责任，以及它们的相同点、类比和不同点。它们是相互关联的吗?它们之间的关系是什么?在大流行期间，如何才能让它们充满实际内容?

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) Arts and Humanities-Philosophy

CiteScore

1.00

自引率

28.60%

发文量

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe) is one of the leading Central European international journals in ethics and bioethics focusing on philosophical ethics, bioethics and applied ethics also including the history of ethics, ethical and moral education as well as professional ethics. The journal publishes theoretical articles as well as empirical findings concerning all aspects of ethics and morality. Authors can submit research articles, review articles, book reviews, conference reports and information on recently published books. Ethics & Bioethics (in Central Europe) is published in print as well as electronic format, two issues per year (June and December). Only articles in English are accepted for publishing.