Moral expertise

Abstract

This paper surveys recent work on moral expertise. Much of that work de-fends an asymmetry thesis according to which the cognitive deference to expertise that characterizes other areas of inquiry is out of place in morality. There are two reasons why you might think asymmetry holds. The problem might lie in the existence of expertise or in deferring to it. We argue that both types of arguments for asymmetry fail. They appear to be stronger than they are because of their focus on moral expertise regarding all in judgments about rightness. We reject this emphasis on all in judgment in favor of an account of moral expertise as typically multi stranded and domain limited. This account of moral e..