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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Normative Realism"”.
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Words and Doing Things: What Meanings Can Do and the Role of Motivational States in Determining Meaning
… the semantic values standardly assigned to normative expressions can help explain the special connection that normative thought and discourse seem to have to non-cognitive mental states: states like desire that play a special role in motivating action. I argue against the metasemantic …
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A Defense of Mackie's Moral Error Theory: Essays on the Argument from Queerness and Formulation Problems
In Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, J. L. Mackie argues that, while our moral claims point “to something objectively prescriptive,” no such things exist and thus “these claims are all false” (Mackie 1977). A number of issues with Mackie's articulation of “moral error theory” have cast doubt on …
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What Does Theism Add to Ethical Naturalism?
… theories within existing taxonomies of normative theory. While perhaps encouraging for theists, would theism add anything substantive to theories of ethical naturalism? In this paper, I examine this question. I argue that theistic naturalism appears to incur certain objections as well as …