By explicitly addressing moral knowledge from a particularists perspective, this book can engage with an established and vibrant area of moral philosophy whilst making a distinctive and productive contribution to a relatively neglected dimension of it.
Author(s): Benedict Smith
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 196
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 10
1.1 Particularism and moral philosophy......Page 14
1.2 Abstraction......Page 20
1.3 Theory and practice......Page 22
1.4 Constraints......Page 25
1.5 Metaphysics/epistemology......Page 29
1.6 Holism......Page 32
1.7 Particularism and epistemology......Page 36
2.1 Rationality and moral knowledge......Page 41
2.2 Platonism and practice......Page 48
2.3 Practices, perspectives and the moral world......Page 52
2.4 Projectivism and normativity......Page 57
2.5 Rationality, experience and uncodifiability......Page 62
3.1 Moral perception......Page 69
3.2 Perception contra particularism......Page 73
3.3 Looking and 'looking away'......Page 79
3.4 The Myth of the Moral Given......Page 82
3.5 From experience to judgement......Page 85
3.6 Subjectivity and judgement......Page 93
4.1 Judgement and moral epistemology......Page 96
4.2 Judgement, rules and examples......Page 101
4.3 Particularism, judgement and experience......Page 105
4.4 Judgement and justification......Page 110
4.5 Beyond judgement?......Page 116
5.1 Phenomenology......Page 123
5.2 Scepticism about moral phenomenology......Page 126
5.3 Mandelbaum's moral phenomenology......Page 132
5.4 Dreyfusian moral phenomenology......Page 134
5.5 'Looks'......Page 141
5.6 Particularism and moral phenomenology......Page 143
6.1 Placing in the space of reasons......Page 150
6.2 Concepts and the moral world......Page 153
6.3 Moral experience......Page 155
6.4 What is 'context'?......Page 160
6.5 Thinking in the space of moral reasons......Page 166
Notes......Page 176
Bibliography......Page 185
Index......Page 192
