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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"metaethics"”.
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A reading of Nietzsche's Metaethics
This dissertation offers a reading of Nietzsche's metaethics, and seeks to defend it against competing readings. It argues that Nietzsche held an error theory about moral value, but also that his metaethical stance with regards to other types of value is harder to characterize. A number of rival …
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Ethics Experience: Toward a Pragmatist Metaethics
… for Ethics Experience: Toward a Pragmatist Metaethics Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy By Diana Beverley Heney, 2014 Graduate Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto This project develops a strain of pragmatist thought arising from the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, …
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Schrödinger's Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics
Metaethics is a field of philosophy that addresses 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 …
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The Potential of Metaethics for Moral Education
… substantive moralities. Some misuses of metaethics are uncovered which lead to the question of the potential of metaethics for correcting some of our misconceptions concerning indoctrination without violating the non-partisan requirement of education. Non-partisanship is recognized as one …
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The Historical And Contemporary Significance of Anscombe and Foot's Metaethical Thought
… was not onlysignificant for the history of metaethics in the twentieth-century, but continues to be significant for contemporary thought. In Part One, I argue that the historical significance of Anscombe and Foot’s metaethical thought consisted in their revival and unique development of an …
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Moral reasons of our own
… is gaining ground in contemporary Metaethics - as well as in Psychology and the Philosophy of Mind - and this thesis aims to give a novel presentation of Darwall's Second-Personal metaethic that makes clear just why it is so popular. As I will present it, Darwall's Second-Personal …
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Law's Legitimacy: Lon Fuller in a Consequentialist Frame
… gleans from Fuller’s work a sense of his likely metaethics, whose modesty offers an illuminating symmetry with his jurisprudence, especially in comparison with the metaethics and jurisprudence of his two principal rivals, H.L.A. Hart and Ronald Dworkin. Finally, it argues that American law would …
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A Metaethical Study of Simone Weil’s Notion of Attention Through Critical Practical Analogy
… ethical notion of attention. In this thesis, 'metaethics‘ is defined as a second order inquiry into first order questions of normative ethics, more specifically, an inquiry into the metaphysical and epistemological premises of Weil‘s discourse on the ethical value of attention. On one hand, I …
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What Does Theism Add to Ethical Naturalism?
… have opened up space for naturalistic theistic metaethics in a contemporary context, as proponents of divine command theories have tended to be restricted to either supernatural or theistic non-natural theories within existing taxonomies of normative theory. While perhaps encouraging for …
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Can program explanation confer ontological rights for the Cornell realist variety of moral realism?
In his Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics, Alex Miller considered 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.’ …
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Does Empirical Moral Psychology Rest on a Mistake? Understanding Theories About the Nature of Moral Judgment as Moral Propositions
… has profound consequences for the methodology of metaethics. Specifically, it implies that theories about the nature of moral judgment cannot be understood as empirical hypotheses. There have historically been many attempts to develop a philosophically satisfying theory that characterizes the …
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The Debunking Project. Developing a Framework for the Scope and Requirements of Successful Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
… The findings have broader implications for metaethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind, offering new insights into the evolutionary constraints on human cognition and the justification of our beliefs.
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A Review of the Principal Questions in Richard Price’s Moral Intuitionism
… Mackie, who makes explicit reference to Price’s metaethics in the 1977 publication Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. For example, Mackie (1977, p. 39) engages with Price’s view as “an important counter to the argument from queerness,” with Price arguing that empiricism has severe …
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On the Functions of Morality
… and the functionalist literature in naturalistic metaethics. Biological function suggests both objectivity and normativity: “the function of the heart is to pump blood” is an objective fact, and yet, hearts may malfunction—and malfunctioning is normative. Many ethicists wish to naturalize …
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Toward a Funcational Apporach to Normative Reasons
… of normative reasons has evaded the field of metaethics for a long time. I argue that this is because of confusion at the conceptual level. Beginning with the debate between Reasons Internalists and Reasons Externalists, I develop an account of our concept of normative reasons that gives place …
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Between God and Man: Community's Place in Virtue, Practical Reason, and Transcendent Good
… Goods present distinct theories in ethics and metaethics. Brewer begins with the fundamental ethical perspective of the practical deliberator who experiences his practical deliberations as a continuous, unified, and constantly revised activity which begins with inchoate intimations of goodness …
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Groundwork and Principles for Applied Conservatism
… conservatism, conservatism in ethics and metaethics, and conservatism in political philosophy. Through these surveys, Ladyman and Ross’ ontic structural realism is proposed as a bridge- builder between religious and non-religious conservatives. Epistemic conservatism is argued to be …
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Living with ourselves, together
… of intersecting topics within moral psychology, metaethics, and epistemology. Broadly speaking, the first half of the dissertation focuses on individual agency, normativity and the self; while the second half explores aspects of our normative lives as social agents. More specifically, the first …
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"Moral perception": an examination and revision
In the recent metaethics literature, some theorists have advanced what seems to be a novel moral epistemology or explanation of how it is that agents come to form moral beliefs and acquire moral knowledge. Known to this point simply as “moral perception,” this view claims that it is possible to …
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The Benevolent Ideal Observer Theory
… before arguing in favour of a response-dependent metaethics, in contrast to other sentimentalist theories such as fitting-attitude accounts. The response-dependent schema states that an object is morally valuable if and only if a particular agent would have a particular reaction to it (in certain …
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