Criterialism versus Deliberativism

Abstract

The argument in this paper is that the position of Schneiderman, Jecker, and Jonsen (2017) suffers from the very flaws of which they accuse the Multiorganization Policy Statement, and that all the ethical and conceptual arguments speak in favor of the collaborative, deliberativist position that underlies the Multiorganization Statement. That position is that we should abandon self-sealing definitions of futility, which disguise the value judgments inherent in them, in favor of the evolving, collaborative process of decision-making.