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  • Legal and Political Philosophy
  • Ethics of Belief

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  • Two key ethics of belief positions, epistemic purism and reason pragmatism, present conflicting intuitions, particularly regarding all-things-considered beliefs.
  • These conflicts manifest in meta-principles governing law and policy: evidence-based regulation and the precautionary principle.
  • Evidence-based regulation mandates legal rules based on current scientific knowledge, while the precautionary principle advocates for regulation despite insufficient scientific evidence of potential harm.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To reconcile the seemingly conflicting principles of evidence-based regulation and the precautionary principle.
  • To re-examine the precautionary principle through the lens of ethics of belief.
  • To demonstrate how the precautionary principle can be interpreted to align with, rather than oppose, evidence-based regulation.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical analysis of ethical theories of belief.
  • Examination of meta-principles in law and policy-making.
  • Reinterpretation of the precautionary principle within the framework of epistemic ethics.

Main Results:

  • The precautionary principle can be viewed as a political encroachment on evidence-based regulation when interpreted through certain ethical frameworks.
  • A novel interpretation reconciles the epistemic and pragmatic intuitions underlying both principles.
  • The study proposes a way to harmonize scientific evidence requirements with protective measures against potential harm.

Conclusions:

  • The precautionary principle, when understood through the ethics of belief, can be reconciled with evidence-based regulation.
  • This reconciliation addresses conflicts in both theoretical ethics and practical policy-making.
  • The findings offer a framework for more coherent and ethically grounded legal and policy decisions.