Albert R. Jonsen

Thinkers1931 to 2020Bioethicist

Works

  • The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning, University of California Press, 1988

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One of the founders of bioethics. With Stephen Toulmin he argued that casuistry, reasoning from paradigm cases to new ones by analogy, is a sound method of moral reasoning and that only its abuse earned it a bad name.

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