Challenging Moral Particularism

Matjaž Potrc, Vojko Strahovnik, Mark Lance (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

222 Seiten

2008
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-96377-0 (ISBN)

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Containing eleven essays covering a broad range of topics, this book addresses developments in particularist moral theory.

Particularism is a justly popular ‘cutting-edge’ topic in contemporary ethics across the world. Many moral philosophers do not, in fact, support particularism (instead defending "generalist" theories that rest on particular abstract moral principles), but nearly all would take it to be a position that continues to offer serious lessons and challenges that cannot be safely ignored. Given the high standard of the contributions, and that this is a subject where lively debate continues to flourish, Challenging Moral Particularism will become required reading for professionals and advanced students working in the area.

Matjaž Potrc is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Vojko Strahovnik is an Assistant Philosophy Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana. Mark Lance is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, USA.

1. INTRODUCTION: Vojko Strahovnik: Challenging Moral Particularism
2. Brad Hooker: Moral Particularism and the Real World
3. Robert Audi: Ethical Generality and Moral Judgment
4. Mark Lance and Margaret Little: From Particularism to Defeasibility in Ethics
5. Pekka Väyrynen: Usable Moral Principles
6. Sean McKeever and Michael Ridge: Particularism and the Contingent A Priori
7. Jonathan Dancy: Are Basic Moral Facts both Contingent and A Priori?
8. Terry Horgan and Matjaž Potrc: Contextual Semantics and Particularist Normativity
9. Nenad Mišcevic: When the Plot Thickens: Dancy on Thick Concepts
10. David McNaughton and Piers Rawling: Holism about Value
11. Anthony W. Price: Particularism and Pleasure
12. David Bakhurst: Laughter and Moral Ambiguity: Particularist Reflections on the Ethical Dimensions of Humour

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.3.2008
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	0-415-96377-X / 041596377X
ISBN-13	978-0-415-96377-0 / 9780415963770
Zustand	Neuware