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MORAL STRATA - JOHN R WELCH GEBUNDEN

This volume recreates the received notion of reflective equilibrium. It reconfigures reflective
equilibrium as both a cognitive ideal and a method for approximating this ideal. The ideal of
reflective equilibrium is restructured using the concept of discursive strata  which are formed
by sentences and differentiated by function. Sentences that perform the same kind of linguistic
function constitute a stratum. The book shows how moral discourse can be analyzed into
phenomenal  instrumental  and teleological strata  and the ideal of reflective equilibrium
reworked in these terms. In addition  the work strengthens the method of reflective equilibrium
by harnessing the resources of decision theory and inductive logic. It launches a comparative
version of decision theory and employs this framework as a guide to moral theory choice. It
also recruits quantitative inductive logic to inform a standard of inductive cogency. When used
in tandem with comparative decision theory  this standard can aid in the effort to turn the
undesirable condition of reflective disequilibrium into reflective equilibrium.

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