Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Home/Original/inverse
    See Original
    Inverse View

    It is not the case that Expert opinion about therapies faces problems beyond purely epistemic misjudgment

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

    Reasons For

    2 perspectives
    Reason for 1 of 2
    ?
    • 1.The principal-agent framework presupposes adversarial self-interest, but medical professionalism constitutes a distinct moral psychology that cannot be reduced to economic agency.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Virtue ethics traditions from Aristotle through Pellegrino ground clinical judgment in cultivated phronesis, making epistemic and motivational failures analytically inseparable, not distinct problem types.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reason for 2 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Habermas's theory of communicative action holds that expert-patient discourse, when undistorted, operates under norms of validity that structurally resist strategic self-interest.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.If non-epistemic distortions are reducible to communicative pathologies, they are still epistemic failures at the level of the institution, collapsing the claim's proposed distinction.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    1 perspective
    Reason against
    ?
    • 1.Medical experts and patients are in a principal-agent relationship in which the agent's interests may diverge from the principal's
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Agents have incentives to cheat by not exerting the effort needed to select and deliver the optimal therapy
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.