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Mind, morals, and reasons

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Practical Reasoning (FAPR 1996)

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The purpose of this paper is to show that the appropriate account of moral reasons will be somewhere between extreme generalism and extreme particularism. Results from research in Parallel Distributed Processing will be used to show how moral knowledge may be thought of as general but not productively thought of in terms of exceptionless rules.

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Dov M. Gabbay Hans Jürgen Ohlbach

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Guarini, M. (1996). Mind, morals, and reasons. In: Gabbay, D.M., Ohlbach, H.J. (eds) Practical Reasoning. FAPR 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61313-7_81

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