Jonathan Dancy presents a long-awaited exposition and defense of particularism in ethics, a theory which he, perhaps more than anyone else, has developed and championed in recent years. Dancy's controversial claim, powerfully argued, is that the traditional link between morality and principles, or between being moral and having principles, is little more than a mistake. Ethics without Principles is the definitive presentation of particularist ethical theory, and will be required reading for all moral philosophers.

1. What are the Options?

1

(12)

1. Introduction

1

(2)

2. A Range of Options

3

(10)

Part I Catching the Contributory

13

(58)

2. Contributory Reasons

15

(23)

1. Reason and Reasons

15

(2)

2. The Contributory and the Overall

17

(8)

3. Doing Without the Contributory

25

(4)

4. Two Basic Notions?

29

(2)

5. Ought and Most Ought

31

(3)

6. Oughts Without Reasons?

34

(4)

3. Beyond Favouring

38

(15)

1. Favouring and Enabling

38

(6)

2. Non-Moral Cases

44

(1)

3. Enabling an Explanation

45

(4)

4. Epistemic Enablers

49

(4)

4. Dropping the Catch

53

(20)

1. Humean Realism

53

(4)

2. Expressivism

57

(3)

3. Neo-Pragmatism

60

(3)

4. Australian Naturalism

63

(4)

5. Kantianism

67

(4)

Part II From Holism to Particularism

71

(92)

5. Holism and its Consequences

73

(21)

1. Holism in the Theory of Reasons

73

(5)

2. From Holism to Particularism

78

(7)

3. Supervenience and Resultance

85

(4)

4. Expanding the Resultance Base

89

(5)

6. Can Holism be True?

94

(24)

1. Various Forms of Atomism

94

(1)

2. Complete Reasons and Full Explanations

95

(4)

3. Atomistic Conceptions of Relevance

99

(10)

4. Practical Reasoning and Inference tot

5. Conceptual Competence and Natural Patterns

109

(2)

6. Defeasible Generalizations

111

(7)

7. Competing pictures

118

(22)

1. Improving on Ross

118

(5)

2. Virtues as Guarantees

123

(2)

3. Expanding the Reason

125

(2)

4. Making it Specific

127

(6)

5. Morality as a Practical Tool

133

(2)

6. Seeing the Point

135

(2)

7. Aristotelian Teleology

137

(3)

8. Knowing Reasons

140

(25)

1. Basic Normative Facts

140

(3)

2. Is there a Moral Sense?

143

(3)

3. The Modal Status of Basic Moral Facts

146

(2)

4. Is this Foundationalism?

148

(2)

5. Is this Coherentism?

150

(5)

6. Sceptical Challenges

155

(8)

Part III Holism in the Theory of Value

163

(53)

9. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Value

165

(11)

1. Six Issues About Intrinsic Value

165

(5)

2. Intrinsic Value for Holists

170

(6)

10. Are there Organic Unities?

176

(14)

1. Organic Unities: Holism in the Theory of Value

176

(8)

2. Default Values

184

(3)

3. A Different Conception of Organic Unities

187

(3)

11. Rationality, Value, and Meaning

190

(9)

1. Competence with a Practical Concept

190

(3)

2. Particularism in the Theory of Meaning

193

(6)

12. Principles of Rational Valuing

199

(17)

1. The Atomic Principle

199

(3)

2. Complementarity

202

(14)

Bibliography

216

(9)

Index

225

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