Microlevel Prioritizations and Incommensurability

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 27 (1):75-86 (2018)
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This article addresses the prioritization questions that arise when people attempt to institutionalize reasonable ethical principles and create guidelines for microlevel decisions. I propose that this instantiates an incommensurability problem, and suggest two different kinds of practical solutions for dealing with this issue.

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