Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Don't - Hardcover

Goldman, Alan H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521807298 ISBN 13: 9780521807296

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This book attempts to systematically clarify when rules should and should not be followed.

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Review

"The book is well organized into an introduction and four chapters...The service Goldman provides is realistic conception of ethical reasoning that recognizes human limitations...Goldman has provided an impressive example the sort of analytical reasoning that goes on behind the scene...Philosophers will see this book displaying clear analyses and well argued position...Goldman has also provided a real service to clinicians concerned with ethical behavior." Metapsychology Feb 28 2002

"Goldman makes his argument in a clear and convincing manner and successfully provides us with a model for moral reasoning that takes into account the differences between decision-making in the public sphere, in which rule-following is essential, and ordinary individual decision-making, in which rule following is not helpful but in which moral guidance is, nevertheless, still available to moral agents." - Marina P. Banchetti-Robino, Florida Atlantic University

Book Description

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521807298
• ISBN 13: 9780521807296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224