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Practical contexts /

The thought and the findings of moral particularism are extended to contextualism. Moral particularism asserts that reasons for moral actions are not governed by general principles, but by a mixture of situation bound deliberation and values. Particularism was established in the area of moral philos...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Potrč, Matjaž
Otros Autores: Strahovnik, Vojko
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Frankfurt ; New Brunswick : Ontos Verlag, 2004.
Colección:Practical philosophy ; Bd. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword; I. POSITIVE AND WIDE IMPACT OF PARTICULARISM; Delineating Moral Particularism; The Lessons and Morals of Moral Particularism; Wider Positive Project; Particularism and Metaphysics13; II. PRACTICAL CONTEXTS; Particularism and Context; Why Contexts would Figure as Reasons for Action?; Humeans: Beliefs and desires lead to action, desires dominating beliefs.; Dancy's Pure Cognitivism Thesis: Belief dominate desires as reasonsfor action. Beliefs are more objective than desires.; Practical Reality; Practical Contexts: contexts have normative authority as reasons.
  • Objection Considered and Some Further MattersIII. PARTICULARISM AND PRODUCTIVITY ARGUMENT; Patterns; Systematizing of Lists: by General Principles?; Arbitrariness and the Weirdly Blinking Machine; Productivity Argument; Dynamical Cognition33 Based Judgments Assure Relevance upon anIntractable Basis; Some Further Remarks and Objections; IV. THE HEART OF KNOWLEDGE35; Reasons and Knowledge; Knowledge as Justified True Belief; Contextualism and the Elusiveness of Knowledge; No Justification and Rules of Relevance; Particularist Justification in Context; V. NARRATION; What is Narration?
  • The Role of ExplanationNarrative Explanation; Narration and Relevance; VI. PARTICULARIST COMPOSITIONALITY; Presuppositions of the Classicist View of Compositionality; Where Classicism Goes Wrong; The Possibility of the Particularist Non-Arbitrariness of Composition; More on FPCD; A Particularist Methodological Remark on HT Approach; VII. DYNAMICAL COGNITION; Classical Cognitive Science and Marr's Three Levels of Cognitive System'sDescription; Connectionism; Dynamical Cognition and Morphological Content; The Case of Epistemic Normativity; Conclusion; VIII. PHENOMENOLOGY OF OBJECT CONSTITUTION.
  • The Constitution of Ordinary ObjectsHow do Metaphysicians Usually Present the Constitution of Objects?; Generalist Problems with Ordinary Objects; Particularistic Object Constitution; IX. THE HEART OF EXISTENCE; Pascal's Distinction, Ontology and Normativity; Monistic Metaphysics; Problems of Normative Conditions in Metaphysics; Ultimate and Regional Ontology; Holistic and Rich Regional Ontology; Conclusion; References.