Practical Wisdom and the Value of Cognitive Diversity

Jefferson, Anneli; Sifferd, Katrina

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“…But this reliance on a moral audience for norm acquisition is compatible with internalised rules taking precedence to current audience feedback. For example, where a societal audience inconsistently applies moral rules in ways that serve individuals self-interest, autistic moral actors would seem to be better off than neurotypicals, who tend to be highly swayed by contextualized moral feedback (Jefferson and Sifferd 2022). This highlights our second worry for accounts which claim that moral audiences support reasons-responsiveness.…”

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Responsible Agency and the Importance of Moral Audience

Jefferson

Sifferd

2023

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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Ecological accounts of responsible agency claim that moral feedback is essential to the reasons-responsiveness of agents. In this paper, we discuss McGeer’s scaffolded reasons-responsiveness account in the light of two concerns. The first is that some agents may be less attuned to feedback from their social environment but are nevertheless morally responsible agents – for example, autistic people. The second is that moral audiences can actually work to undermine reasons-responsiveness if they espouse the wrong values. We argue that McGeer’s account can be modified to handle both problems. Once we understand the specific roles that moral feedback plays for recognizing and acting on moral reasons, we can see that autistics frequently do rely on such feedback, although it often needs to be more explicit. Furthermore, although McGeer is correct to highlight the importance of moral feedback, audience sensitivity is not all that matters to reasons-responsiveness; it needs to be tempered by a consistent application of moral rules. Agents also need to make sure that they choose their moral audiences carefully, paying special attention to receiving feedback from audiences which may be adversely affected by their actions.

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Responsible Agency and the Importance of Moral Audience

Jefferson

Sifferd

2023

Ethic Theory Moral Prac

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Integrity as the Goal of Character Education

Webber

2022

Roy. Inst. Philos. Suppl.

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Schools and universities should equip students with the ability to deal with an unpredictable environment in ways that promote worthwhile and fulfilling lives. The world is rapidly changing and the contours of our ethical values have been shaped by the world we have lived in. Education therefore needs to cultivate in students the propensity to develop and refine ethical values that preserve important insights accrued through experience while responding to novel challenges. Therefore, we should aim to foster the virtue of ethical integrity. This virtue is driven by a concern for ethical accuracy, which motivates and warrants respect for our existing ethical commitments as repositories of previous ethical reasoning, but equally requires recognition of our own fallibility and consideration of other people's reasoning. Ethical integrity thus comprises constancy, fidelity, humility, and receptivity, balanced and integrated by the aim of ethical accuracy. It is a kind of ethical seriousness, though it includes acceptance of some degree of ambivalence. It is an inherently developmental virtue distinct from the unachievable ethical perfection of practical wisdom. It is an Aristotelian virtue, even though Aristotle does not himself name it. The paper closes with an outline of what education for ethical integrity would look like.

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Phronesis

Kristjánsson,

Fowers

2023

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A diverse bandwagon of academics is working with and celebrating the notion of phronesis, or ‘practical wisdom’, as a metacognitive capacity, guiding morally aspirational cognition and action. However, this new phronesis discourse is characterized by frequently unrecognized tensions, lacunae, and ambivalences. The book has five main aims: (1) to set the recently surging interest in phronesis (practical wisdom) in Psychology, Philosophy, Professional Ethics, and Education in an historical and theoretical context; (2) to analyse and elaborate upon Aristotle’s ‘standard model’ of phronesis in a philosophically credible way that allows for a psychologically serviceable and empirically tractable conceptualization; (3) to juxtapose our new Aristotelian phronesis model with a recent consensual model of wisdom in Psychology, and respond to different kinds of scepticism about the usefulness of the phronesis construct; (4) to elicit many practical implications of our model for the development and education of phronesis and its application in areas of professional practice and daily conduct; and (5) to explore the relevance of phronesis in areas that have mostly eluded investigation so far, including the spheres of civic/political virtues and collective (managerial) decision-making. The book works through some relevant puzzles created by the recent phronesis discourse. It ameliorates lacunae in the literature and pushes the research agenda in new, radically cross-disciplinary directions, drawing in equal measure on insights from Psychology, Philosophy, and Education. Through its revised and applied Aristotelianism, the book contributes to debates about the salience of phronesis within Moral Psychology, Moral Philosophy, Moral Education, and Professional Ethics.

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Practical Wisdom and the Value of Cognitive Diversity

Cited by 16 publications

References 14 publications

Responsible Agency and the Importance of Moral Audience

Responsible Agency and the Importance of Moral Audience

Integrity as the Goal of Character Education

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