I would like to thank Khalil S. Khan and Fred D. Miller, Jr., for providing valuable feedback on an earlier draft of this essay, and Maureen C. Kelley and Lisa Rasmussen for providing me with the opportunity to work on this project.
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Khan, CA.B. (2005). Aristotle’s Moral Expert: The phronimos. In: Rasmussen, L. (eds) Ethics Expertise. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 87. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3820-8_3
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