Philosophical wisdom and bioethical expertise: a wittgensteinian approach

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https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.34.063.DS04

Abstract

This paper explores the interconnections between philosophical wisdom and bioethical expertise, arguing that the latter can be enlightened by the former. First, it analyses the arguments of those who think that philosophy has nothing to say to bioethics, and afterwards, it shows that philosophical wisdom has an irreducible ethical component, which in turn helps bioethics to reach its aims. Thus, this paper shows that some Wittgensteinian commentators (e.g., Paul Johnston) did not grasp the contributions the author of the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus and even his later work made to ethics (and potentially to bioethics as a subfield) as an autonomous domain of investigation independent of logic, the empirical sciences, and metaphysics.

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Author Biography

Darlei Dall'Agnol, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)

Professor Titular da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Possui Graduação (1983-1986) e Especialização (1987) em Filosofia pela Universidade de Caxias do Sul (RS) onde também atuou como professor (1987-1993). Cursou Mestrado em Filosofia na UFRGS (1988-1992) e Doutorado em Filosofia na University of Bristol (PhD, 1996-2000), Inglaterra, com trabalhos na área da Ética. Fez estágio de pós-doutorado em metaética na University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, US (2006-7), onde iniciou o desenvolvimento de uma nova epistemologia moral, a saber, o cognitivismo prático, e em bioética no Centre for Practical Ethics da University of Oxford, UK (2015-6) onde aplicou-o a questões de ética prática explicitando as implicações de um cuidado respeitoso.

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Published

2022-12-07

How to Cite

Dall’Agnol, D. (2022). Philosophical wisdom and bioethical expertise: a wittgensteinian approach. Revista De Filosofia Aurora, 34(63). https://doi.org/10.7213/1980-5934.34.063.DS04