caa a22 4500 606237607 CHVBK 20210128101254.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-014-9514-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-014-9514-z Zamzow Jennifer Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Baker Hall 135, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut Rules and Principles in Moral Decision Making: An Empirical Objection to Moral Particularism [Elektronische Daten] [Jennifer Zamzow] It is commonly thought that moral rules and principles, such as ‘Keep your promises,' ‘Respect autonomy,' and ‘Distribute goods according to need (merit, etc.),' should play an essential role in our moral deliberation. Particularists have challenged this view by arguing that principled guidance leads us to engage in worse decision making because principled guidance is too rigid and it leads individuals to neglect or distort relevant details. However, when we examine empirical literature on the use of rules and principles in other domains, we find that people can learn to use rules discriminately and that rule-based models tend to outperform even expert judgment. I argue that this evidence poses a problem for the moral particularist. If the particularist claims that we should not rely on decision-making rules when making practical decisions and it turns out that these rules help us make better decisions, then the particularists' prescriptive account is deficient. However, if the particularist claims that we should rely on practical decision-making rules but not on moral rules, she needs to explain how practical rules are different from moral rules and why we should rely on the former but not the latter. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Moral judgments nationallicence Particularism nationallicence Moral rules nationallicence Moral principles nationallicence Experts nationallicence Empirical nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/1(2015-02-01), 123-134 1386-2820 18:1<123 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9514-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-014-9514-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Zamzow Jennifer Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Baker Hall 135, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/1(2015-02-01), 123-134 1386-2820 18:1<123 2015 18 10677