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A Defense of Mackie's Moral Error Theory: Essays on the Argument from Queerness and Formulation Problems
… of moral facts that apparently avoid any queerness (Nagel 1997, Putnam 2004, Parfit 2011, Scanlon 2014). According to them, moral facts exist without ontological robustness, so they would not be queer. However, once the argument from queerness is more clearly articulated, it becomes …
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Error theory after J.L Mackie: Contemporary error theorists’ arguments
This dissertation 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 …
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A Review of the Principal Questions in Richard Price’s Moral Intuitionism
… Price’s defense of intuitionism by drawing from his most complete work on moral philosophy, A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals (1758), while primarily using the third edition (1787). Additionally, along with other secondary sources, I will rely on the commentaries of Price as …