Incommensurability and healthcare priority setting
(2024) In Philosophical Studies- Abstract
This paper argues that accepting incommensurability can be a useful step for developing attractive hybrid theories to how to distribute scarce health-related resources. If one provides opportunity for distributive options to be incommensurable with respect to substantive criteria, one can hold on to substantive criteria while also providing room for decision processes to play a significant role. The paper also argues that the strategy of accepting incommensurability is preferable to the strategy of having substantive criteria establish sets of options that are equally, explains why incommensurability gives us reason to go hybrid, and argues that reasons grounded in decision processes have properties that make them appropriate as... (More)
This paper argues that accepting incommensurability can be a useful step for developing attractive hybrid theories to how to distribute scarce health-related resources. If one provides opportunity for distributive options to be incommensurable with respect to substantive criteria, one can hold on to substantive criteria while also providing room for decision processes to play a significant role. The paper also argues that the strategy of accepting incommensurability is preferable to the strategy of having substantive criteria establish sets of options that are equally, explains why incommensurability gives us reason to go hybrid, and argues that reasons grounded in decision processes have properties that make them appropriate as “tiebreakers” in choice situations characterized by incommensurability.
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- author
- Herlitz, Anders LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- epub
- subject
- keywords
- Distributive theory, Healthcare rationing, Hybrid theories, Incommensurability, Priority-setting
- in
- Philosophical Studies
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85192713275
- ISSN
- 0031-8116
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11098-024-02160-4
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 2d4a614f-fea7-407a-95bc-8eba61e5e18b
- date added to LUP
- 2024-06-10 13:00:31
- date last changed
- 2024-06-10 13:01:25
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