Jonathan Dancy’s Particularism: A Critical Assessment | ||
| The International Journal of Humanities | ||
| Article 8, Volume 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-155 PDF (285.19 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Ali Paya* | ||
| National Research Institute for Science Policy (Iran) | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Jonathan Dancy advocates a radical particularist theory of ethics. Arguing against a variety of generalist doctrines, he maintains that there are no moral principles and that our ethical decisions are highly context-dependent: they are made case by case, without the support of such principles. In this paper, drawing on a number of theoretical concepts used in science as well as the philosophy of science I shall try to develop a moderate generalist-pluralist model. This model, I shall argue, is less vulnerable to Dancy’s criticisms and better equipped, in comparison to Dancy’s own model, to deal with moral cases. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Particularism. Generalist-pluralist doctrines; Universal moral principles; Themes from science and philosophy of science | ||
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