Pragmatic Particularism

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 :

Two Versions of an Argument for Particularism

In the article two versions of an argument for particularism are presented and discussed. The first has Avicenna as originator; Donald Mertz is the originator of the second version. While the first version takes for granted a reduction of polyadic attributes, the second does not. In fact, Mertz vehemently rejects the reduction. The article ends with an attempt to make it plausible that Mertz’s ...

Presidential Particularism and Divide-the-Dollar Politics

When influencing the allocation of federal dollars across the country, do presidents strictly pursue maximally efficient outcomes, or do they systematically target dollars to politically influential constituencies? In a county-level analysis of federal spending from 1984 to 2008, we find that presidents are not universalistic, but particularistic – that is they reliably direct dollars to specif...