Dewey had rejected the idea of fixed ends for human beings, and stressed that moral deliberation occurs in the context of competition within a person between different ends, none of which can be assumed permanent.
Most recently, this has been in the context of deliberations regarding possible U.S. actions to reduced carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions linked with global climate change, as in HR 2454, the Waxman-Markey bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as in proposals developing in the Senate.
In fact, Dewey argued, deliberation assigns weights to different prized qualities in the context of choice, rather than taking them as given.
Sincerity may sometimes matter in the context of public deliberation (e.g., in order to be able to predict the likelihood of future courses of action on the basis of present declarations by politicians), but certainly not for exactly the same reasons and to the same extent as it does in private relationships.
In any case of this kind, where it is assumed that the facts cannot be established with certainty, considerations of what is plausible may, given sufficient ingenuity, be adduced on either side, and similar arguments can be adduced in the context of political deliberation, where the future outcome cannot be certain and the decision has to turn on the balance of probabilities.
It is theoretically grounded in justice theories emphasizing democratic deliberation [ 27, 28], it was developed in the context of real-world priority setting processes and has emerged over the past five years as a leading framework for priority setting [ 16- 22].
This Brief draws on the work of the global research action policy network Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) to review the state of knowledge on the urban informal economy in the context of ongoing deliberations on how to implement the NUA.
So in the context of Fed deliberations, in particular identifying the next Fed chair, we should ask: Who is a valid candidate that, with regard to the economy of nature, is not dumb, dumber, or Summers?
Child dissent was not discussed, nor was the possibility that the voices of some members of the community might not be heard in the context of community deliberations or assemblies.
However, we would question whether it is or should be accepted practice for editors who are also authors to initiate an expedited process for their own papers, or to suggest that they would be willing to do so in order to advance the interests of a regulated industry that has hired them in the context of regulatory deliberations.
