rational reasoning in moral Philosophy

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This work is an investigation into philosophical method and rational argument in moral philosophy. It makes an original contribution to human understanding, 1 by taking some of the tools and techniques that Gordon Baker identifies in the later work of Wittgenstein, and using them as a way of fending for oneself in an area of philosophy that neither Baker, nor Wittgenstein, wrote on. More specifically, a discussion of some different aspects of the contemporary literature on Dancy's (2004) moral particularism is used as a vehicle for illustrating how Baker's therapeutic conception of philosophy offers alternative possibilities for how we can do philosophy, and what counts as rational argument in moral philosophy. I maintain that, by considering some indicative ways in which Baker's therapeutic approach to philosophy can dissolve, rather than solve, 2 the kinds of perplexities found in the existing literature on Dancy's (2004) moral particularism, we can liberate ourselves from the traditional/theoretical view of how we ought to do philosophy, and an understanding of rational argument in moral philosophy, to which we need not be committed