Alan H. Goldman

Practical Rules

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rules proliferate; some are kept with a bureaucratic stringency bordering on the absurd, while others are manipulated and ignored in ways that injure our sense of justice. Under what conditions should we make exceptions to rules, and when should they be followed despite particular circumstances? The two dominant models in the current literature on rules are the particularist account and that which sees the application of rules as normative. Taking a position that falls between these two extremes, Alan Goldman is the first to provide a systematic framework to clarify when we need to follow rules in our moral, legal, and prudential decisions, and when we ought not to do so. This book will be of great interest to advanced students and professionals working in philosophy, law, decision theory, and the social sciences.

Table of contents:
Introduction; 1. Moral rules; 2. Prudential rules; 3. Legal rules; 4. Moral reasoning without rules.

The two dominant models in the current literature on rules are the particularist and normative accounts. Taking a position between these two extremes, Alan Goldman is the first to provide a systematic framework to clarify when we need to follow rules and when we ought not to do so.

The first book to systematically clarify when rules should and should not be followed.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780521807296
• ISBN-10: 0521807298
• Artikelnr.: 21891280

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Moral Rules: 1. Outline of the task
2. Types of rules: dispensable and indispensable
3. Ordinary moral consciousness
4. Rules as second-best strategies
5. The justification of rules: strong and weak
6. Interpretation of weak rules
Part II. Prudential Rules: 7. Moral and prudential rules compared
8. Second-order prudential rules: optimizing
9. A prudential rule to be moral
Part III. Legal Rules: 10. Classification
11. The descriptive question: Hart, Dworkin and others
12. The descriptive question: sources of law
13. The normative question
Part IV. Moral Reasoning without Rules: 14. The inadequacy of particularism
15. Coherence
16. The reasoning process reviewed
17. Objections
Notes
References
Index.