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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Moral Realism"”.
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MORAL REALISM
… theories that have come to be known as moral realism. Over the last twenty years or so, much of the work within philosophical ethics have been concerned with discussing the debate between moral realists and their opponents. Most moral philosophers now accept that some form of cognitivism …
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Peter Railton's moral realism
… of American philosopher Peter Railton's moral realism. The emphasis is placed on his synthetic naturalistic account. He holds that there are moral propositions which can be true or false; moral facts and properties are natural facts and properties; we can come to know or justify moral …
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Moral Disagreement and Moral Realism
… a novel argument from disagreement against moral realism. Moral anti-realists have long suspected that something about the scope and/or nature of moral disagreement threatens moral realism, but existing arguments are either unsound, or rely upon premises which are too question-begging to …
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Moral Realism – Time To Relax?
This thesis critically assesses ‘relaxed realism’ – a group of views that have entered the metaethical debate recently (Dworkin, 1996; Kramer, 2009; Parfit, 2011; Scanlon, 2014). Relaxed realism promises a novel perspective on our normative practice. In particular, it aims for a view that is …
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How Morality Seems: A Cognitive Phenomenal Case for Moral Realism
… it would have important consequences for moral epistemology – how we come to know the moral truths we seem to know. I argue that adopting cognitive phenomenology and the epistemic principle of phenomenal conservatism can do “double duty” for the moral realist: they provide the moral …
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The Epistemic Limits of Evolutionary Debunking: An Evaluation of Evolutionary Arguments Against Moral Realism
… contend that the evolutionary origins of moral belief undermine the epistemic standing of moral realism. Sharon Street's Darwinian Dilemma and Richard Joyce's genealogical undercutting argument represent the two most influential formulations of this challenge. This project subjects both to …
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Can program explanation confer ontological rights for the Cornell realist variety of moral realism?
… a defence that might be made on behalf of the moral non-reductive naturalist in response to Gilbert Harman’s explanatory objection, a response that uses Frank Jackson’s and Philip Pettit’s account of ‘program explanation.’ However, Miller went on to argue that program explanation fails to …
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Moral realism: an anti-projectionist account of moral values as aspects of the manifest image
… thesis will argue that a significant part of our moral experience can be explained by an analogy with the phenomenon of aspect perception discussed by Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations. I will argue that projectivism cannot give a satisfactory account of moral perception. This …
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Moral properties and moral imagination
"Moral Realism" is about an argument against moral realism, why it is unsound, and what emerges from that. The argument is that if there were moral properties, they would be queerly related to non-moral properties and this is sufficient reason to think there are no moral properties. The argument is …
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Schrödinger's Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics
… fundamental questions about the nature of morality. One of the central disputes in metaethics is whether moral realism is true. Moral realism is the claim that there are stance-independent moral facts, moral facts that are true independent of the standards or values of individuals or …
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The Debunking Project. Developing a Framework for the Scope and Requirements of Successful Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
… positions across various domains, notably morality. The dissertation systematically analyzes how EDAs function, what they require as minimal empirical input, what their scope and limits are, and how they can be successfully applied to domains beyond morality.<br /><br /> By investigating …
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Error theory after J.L Mackie: Contemporary error theorists’ arguments
… will be exploring the arguments in favour of moral error theory, which is the metaethical theory that refers to moral statements as erroneous. Error theory relies on the idea that moral statements aim towards the truth, but as there are no moral properties that exist, so moral statements are …
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Prescriptions and universalizability: a defence of Harean ethical theory
… expressivism can provide a coherent account of moral judgement and discourse. The argument for expressivism draws on Hare’s thought that the main error of moral realism is to think of moral objectivity as requiring objects, moral properties which are really there in the world. It is shown, using …
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Nietzsche on value creation
… concerns: the failures of traditional morality and the loss of meaning in the modern world. In Chapter 1 I examine the current literature concerning Nietzsche’s metaethics. Recently, scholars have engaged in debates over whether Nietzsche offers a version of moral realism or …
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Seeing Right from Wrong: A Defense of A Posteriori Ethical Intuitionism
… the claim that our epistemic access to</p> <p>moral properties is grounded in a posteriori perceptual experiences. It is divided into</p> <p>two parts. In part I, I present the epistemic access problem for realist moral</p> <p>epistemology, and then argue against several a priori attempts to …
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God’s Chosen Candidate Pulpit Freedom Sunday and the Reshaping of Evangelical Political Mobilization, Pulpit Politicking, and Church-State Relations
… anxieties about the perceived disappearance of moral knowledge from public life, the evolving role of clergy as political actors, and the uneasy place of religious authority within a secularizing political order. This dissertation examines these questions through a mixed-methods analysis of …