This collection addresses whether ethicists, like authorities in other fields, can speak as experts in their subject matter. Though ethics consultation is a gro

Section I examines historical philosophical understandings of expertise in order to situate the current institution of bioethics. Section II focuses on philosop

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In several of his dialogues, Plato suggests the possibility of moral expertise. Rod Jenks takes up this question of moral expertise as it is addressed in Laches

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