Models express not only information about their intended domain but also about the way in which the model is incomplete, or partial . This partiality supports the modeling process because it permits the expression of what is known without premature decisions about what is still unknown, until later re nements can ll in this information. A key observation of this paper is that a number of partia...

Partiality is the special concern that we display for ourselves and other people with whom stand in some personal relationship. It a central theme moral philosophy, both ancient modern. Questions about justification of partiality arise context enquiry into several topics, including good life role it our commitments; demands impartial morality, equality, ideals; commonsense ideas supererogation....

What is the relation between morality and partiality? Can the kind of partiality that matters to us be accommodated within moral thought, or are morality and partiality rival sources of normative considerations? These are questions that moral philosophy has struggled with in recent decades.1 They may not have much intuitive resonance, because the term ‘partiality’ is not used much in everyday d...

It is a precept of commonsense morality that parents have permissions to be partial toward their own children in various ways: they are permitted act variety ways favor the interests (only) children. But how such reconciled with more general principles justice? In this article, I discuss question as it arises for one kind liberal egalitarian theory justice. Given robust commitment an ideal equa...