 "Moral inquiry", within the present context, means inquiry into practical matters (as opposed to mere speculation or scientific inquiry).Hans-Georg Gadamer uses "moral" in this very sense in "Truth and Method" (p. 314); Albert R. Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin write that "moral knowledge is essentially particular" (1988, p. 330).Shared moral inquiry is moral, not because it involves questions of morality, but because it attempts to determine what is the right thing to do in contingent cases; where such judgments are not made deterministically.