Challenging Moral Particularism

Herausgeber: Potrc, Matjaz; Lance, Mark; Strahovnik, Vojko

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780415887878
• ISBN-10: 0415887879
• Artikelnr.: 33609123

Autorenporträt

Matja 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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 Matja Potrc: Contextual Semantics and Particularist
Normativity
9. Nenad Micevic: 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
REFERENCES & BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX