Wide Reflective Equilibrium
Wide Reflective Equilibrium Assistant
This workspace supports mutual adjustment among considered judgments, general principles, and background theories. Build your map, identify tensions, revise selectively, and record rationale for each deliberative step.
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Use this assistant as a method tool, not a proof machine. These core entries explain why: reflective equilibrium is iterative; disagreement is evidential pressure; and theory choice must be tested against cases, principles, and background assumptions together.
Pressure Tests
Theory Families
Considered Judgments
Add concrete moral judgments you currently take seriously.
General Principles
Add candidate principles that might systematize judgments.
Background Theories
Add empirical or metaphysical assumptions shaping assessment.
Deliberation Workspace
Drag cards, connect relations, and iteratively adjust commitments.
Create Relation
Drag the Link handle from one card to another, or select source/target manually below.