title: A procedural, pragmatist account of ethical objectivity.
abstract: This article offers a procedural, pragmatist account of objectivity in the domain of the good that is inspired by pragmatic and feminist critiques of objectivity in philosophy of science and epistemology. I begin by asking first what we want to capture--or ought to want to capture--with a notion of ethical objectivity and in answer to this question I identify four "points" to ethical objectivity: undergirding the possibility of mistakenness, making genuine disagreement possible, making sense of our appreciation of the ethical perspectives of others, and making possible a sense of ethical improvement or learning. I then lay out a process-based account of objectivity in ethics that makes good on the four points I have identified. Finally, I consider worries related to convergence, bias, and ontology and defend the procedural, pragmatist account in light of those potential objections.
authors.affiliation: Bowling Green State University, USA.
authors.forename: Amanda
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roth
mesh_terms: D026689:Ethical Analysis; D028663:Ethical Theory; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D010684:Philosophy; D012586:Science / Q000941:ethics*