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. 2025 Mar 20;50(2):93-103.
doi: 10.1093/jmp/jhae047.

Challenges Facing the Appeal to Practical Wisdom in Medicine and Beyond

Christian B Miller  1
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Challenges Facing the Appeal to Practical Wisdom in Medicine and Beyond

Christian B Miller. J Med Philos. .

Abstract

As work on practical wisdom and medicine accelerates, now is a good time to outline some important challenges that any approach to developing an account of this virtue faces. More specifically, I develop five challenges having to do with the existence and nature of practical wisdom, and whether it connects with objective and general normative truths. The main goal is to provide a guide to the challenges themselves and some of the options available for tackling them, rather than trying to resolve them here.

Keywords: character; objectivity; particularism; practical wisdom; virtue.

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