ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author briefly characterizes the way he want to construe wide reflective equilibrium (WRE). He then turns to an examination of Raz's and Copp's criticisms. Someone who is committed to wide reflective equilibrium is committed to a holistic, antifoundationalist account of morality. There is, on such an account, no conception of basic or fundamental moral beliefs or principles that will provide an unchallengeable basis for moral beliefs. WRE sets aside any such quest for certainty, any such effort to discover or even construct moral foundations for moral beliefs in accordance with which we could provide a framework to assess extant moralities or judge the rationality of taking the moral point of view. Reflective equilibrium in a distinctive way cashes in the structure of critical rationalization, giving us an appraisal that in important, though not in all, respects Is independent of our initial considered judgments.
