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Heike Schmidt-Felzmann, Pragmatic Principles — Methodological Pragmatism in the Principle-Based Approach to Bioethics, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 28, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 581–596, https://doi.org/10.1076/jmep.28.5.581.18817
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Abstract
In this paper it will be argued that Beauchamp and Childress' principle-based approach to bioethics has strongly pragmatic features. Drawing on the writings of William James, I first develop an understanding of methodological pragmatism as a method of justification. On the basis of Beauchamp's and Childress' most recent proposals concerning moral justification in the fifth edition of their Principles of Biomedical Ethics (2001), I then discuss different aspects that the principle-based approach and methodological pragmatism have in common.