Essays about: "Dancy"

Found 2 essays containing the word Dancy.

  1. 1. Do We Have Reasons To Do What We Cannot Do?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Praktisk filosofi

    Author : Jakob Green Werkmäster; [2013]
    Keywords : Jonathan Dancy; Ulrike Heuer; Bart Streumer; Reasons; Impossibility; Reasons for actions.; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : Bart Streumer utilizes the principle “R: We do not have reasons to do what we cannot do” in order to justify that ‘ought’ implies ‘can’. This thesis questions Streumer’s assumption and instead argues that we have reasons to do what is psychologically-, physically and maybe even metaphysically impossible but not conceptually or logically impossible. READ MORE

  2. 2. Moral Particularism and the Argument from Holism about Reasons

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : William Bülow; [2011]
    Keywords : Ethics; Particularism; Generalism; Holism; Atomism; Moral Knowledge; Moral principles; Moral reasons; Dancy; Jonathan;

    Abstract : Proponents of moral particularism have often sought support for their negative claim about moral principles in a doctrine called holism in the theory of reasons. According to holism, a feature that is a reason in one case may be no reason at all, or even the opposite reason, in another. READ MORE