Practical Rules

When We Need Them and When We Don't

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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 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 provides 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. The book distinguishes among various types of rules; it illuminates concepts such as integrity, self-interest and self-deception; and finally, it provides an account of ordinary moral reasoning without rules. This book will be of great interest to advanced students and professionals working in philosophy, law, decision theory and the social sciences.

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"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

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Moral Rules
Outline of the task
Types of rules: dispensable and indispensable
Ordinary moral consciousness
Rules as second-best strategies
The justification of rules: strong and weak
Interpretation of weak rules
Prudential Rules
Moral and prudential rules compared
Second-order prudential rules: optimizing
A prudential rule to be moral
Legal Rules
Classification
The descriptive question: Hart, Dworkin and others
The descriptive question: sources of law
The normative question
Moral Reasoning Without Rules
The inadequacy of particularism
Coherence
The reasoning process reviewed
Objections
Notes
References
Index
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