Another Particularism: Reasons, Status and Defaults

Reasons as Defaults

Much of the recent literature on reasons is focused on a common range of issues, concerning, for example, the relation between reasons and motivation, desires, and values, the issue of internalism versus externalism in the theory of reasons, or the objectivity or reasons. This paper is concerned with a different, and orthogonal, set of questions: What are reasons, and how do they support action...

Defaults and Reasons Time and Place

This is an experimental seminar, organized around an idea, or a hope. The idea is that default logic can be used to develop a formally precise theory of reasons—what they are, how they interact— and that this theory can then be applied to other areas of philosophy in which talk of reasons is common, such as ethics or epistemology. In order to explore this idea, we will have to spend some time u...

Moral Particularism and Transduction

Some Problems with Particularism

This article suggests that due to a restricted understanding of the nature and scope of ethical theory, particularism discounts prematurely the possibility of a metatheory of Buddhist ethics. The textual evidence presented in support of particularism is reconsidered and shown to be consistent with a metatheoretical reading. It is argued that writers who have adopted a particularist approach bas...

Particularism and Multi - Cultural Education :