| Moral expertise is not a fantasy contrived by those who would wish to wield it. Moral expertise is something that is achieved through training and experience, just as any other form of expertise. While it shares many features with other forms of expertise, it carries with it a form of authority that is different and distinctive due largely to its inherently normative nature. I examine moral expertise by first examining expertise itself. Given what we understand about expertise, how it is achieved, and the impacts it has on the cognition of those who achieve it, I claim that moral expertise in bioethics is best seen as something achieved by groups rather than individuals. |
