Kvanvig, "The RESOLVEDD Method"
Notable for classifying consequences according to likelihood, for including future generations, and for building a defense against objections
SOURCE FOR THE PROCEDURE
Kvanvig, Jonathan L. "The RESOLVEDD Method." 1999. http://kvanvig.tamu.edu/resolvedd.htm (10 Jun. 1999).
THE PROCEDURE ITSELF
- Review the facts
- What are the details?
- What is the background?
- Estimate of the problem or conflict that is at issue
- Solutions that are possible
- Outcomes of each solution
- What will happen?
- What is likely to happen?
- What might happen?
- Likely impact on people's lives of each main solution
- Who gets benefitted?
- Who gets hurt?
- Values upheld or violated by each main solution
- List moral principles: honesty, harm, fidelity, autonomy, confidentiality, lawfulness, equal consideration of interests
- List moral rights: knowledge, privacy, life, free expression, due process, safety, property, profitability
- Include the rights of future generations.
- Evaluation of the values, outcomes and likely impact of each solution
- Decision stated and argued for
- Defense against objections
WALT'S CHECKLIST
The same checklist was applied to all procedures.
- This method is most useful when the DECISION-MAKER ...
- has a working knowledge of several ethical theories [step 6a]
- has plenty of time for investigation and analysis [steps 3-7]
- is skilled in causal or consequential reasoning [step 4]
- is skilled in dialectical reasoning or debate [step 9]
- This method is most useful in a SITUATION ...
- that will change little over time
- This method is most useful when STAKEHOLDERS ...
- share ethical principles [step 6a]
- share values [steps 6 and 7]
