Challenging Moral Particularism

Matjaž Potrc is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.Vojko Strahovnik is an Assistant Philosophy Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana. Mark Lance is Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, USA.

"Overall, Challenging Moral Particularism is an excellent collection of essays on a complex and important topic in moral theory. The essays are informative, engaging, interesting, and topical. They present us with first-rate philosophy on a topic of wide ranging significance." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

• 1. INTRODUCTION: Vojko Strahovnik: Challenging Moral Particularism2. Brad Hooker: Moral Particularism and the Real World3. Robert Audi: Ethical Generality and Moral Judgment4. Mark Lance and Margaret Little: From Particularism to Defeasibility in Ethics5. Pekka Väyrynen: Usable Moral Principles6. Sean McKeever and Michael Ridge: Particularism and the Contingent A Priori7. Jonathan Dancy: Are Basic Moral Facts both Contingent and A Priori?8. Terry Horgan and Matjaž Potrc: Contextual Semantics and Particularist Normativity9. Nenad Mišcevic: When the Plot Thickens: Dancy on Thick Concepts10. David McNaughton and Piers Rawling: Holism about Value11. Anthony W. Price: Particularism and Pleasure12. David Bakhurst: Laughter and Moral Ambiguity: Particularist Reflections on the Ethical Dimensions of HumourREFERENCES & BIBLIOGRAPHYCONTRIBUTORSINDEX