Pragmatism, Ethics and Democracy

Clinical pragmatism: John Dewey and clinical ethics.

Clinical pragmatism, ethics consultation, and the elderly patient.

This article describes a process of moral problem solving for medicine termed clinical pragmatism. A structured and disciplined method of addressing ethical problems in medical practice that clinicians will find useful in their daily routines is provided. After outlining the method of clinical pragmatism, the authors illustrate its use in a case involving an older patient refusing medical treat...

Ethics and democracy in times of crisis

The authors discuss the idea of crisis as something regular and systematic in the capitalist system, situating moments of acute crisis as an inherent part of the political struggle. With a historical perspective, they seek to demonstrate that the transformations and the advances achieved in the culture of rights are still very recent and unconsolidated. They argue that the strengthening of indi...

Empirical ethics, moral philosophy, and the democracy problem

A central issue for the development of summary measures of population health (SMPH), as well as for their use in the prioritization of health care resources, is the source of the value and ethical assumptions employed. Some, not surprisingly they are often social scientists, hold that any ethical premises should be empirically grounded, derived through empirical research on the actual values an...

Jerome Bruner and William James Regarding Pragmatism ’ s Does Pragmatism

As its most basic mission, pragmatism sets out to determine an idea’s merit by examining its practical consequences, rather than through purely abstract evaluation. As a result of this emphasis on an idea’s effectiveness, the complex ways in which pragmatists conceive of abstract notions such as truth and self-concept are often overlooked. Close examination of the works of two pragmatist thinke...