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Jun 6, 2001 · Moral Particularism. Moral Particularism, at its most trenchant, is the claim that there are no defensible moral principles, that moral thought does not consist in the application of moral principles to cases, and that the morally perfect person should not be conceived as the person of principle.
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Jonathan Dancy aims to establish the possibility of reasoning to action, by showing how similar it is to reasoning to belief. He offers a general theory of reasoning, which smoothly admits the differences there may be between the two types, while also considering the possibility of reasoning to hope, to fear, to doubt, and to intention.
Mar 28, 2018 · There are a number of useful overviews on the topic of particularism. Jonathan Dancy, being the contemporary founding father of particularism, provides the most influential, if not the most definitive, statement of the doctrine in Dancy 2009.
Jan 8, 1991 · Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading and author of Berkeley: An Introduction (Blackwell, 1987) and Moral Reasons (Blackwell, 1993), and editor of A Companion...
Sep 24, 2014 · Thinking About Reasons: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Dancy | The Philosophical Quarterly | Oxford Academic. Volume 64. Issue 257. October 2014. Journal Article.
Feb 23, 2011 · Dancy’s conception of moral principles as principles that specify certain features as general reasons fails to capture the categorical imperative because it is restricted to a certain model of moral judgment. According to Dancy, moral principles have the function of specifying which features of situations are of general moral relevance.
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