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Bad Practices: Unintended Consequences of Practice‐Based Theories of Reference

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Practice theories are a genus of causal theories of reference. They claim that the semantic referent of an utterance of a name is determined by features of a practice of using that name to speaker‐refer to, or coordinate actions around, a certain object.
Hugo Heagren
wiley   +1 more source

High Standards

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Evaluative adjectives are gradable. The standard for falling under a gradable adjective “F” is either context‐relative or absolute. Some philosophers have recently used general linguistic tests to argue that “rational” and (moral) “good” are maximum‐degree absolute gradable adjectives: Only what's perfectly morally good strictly counts as ...
Pekka Väyrynen
wiley   +1 more source

On the Naturalistic Grounds of Grounding

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines whether grounding can be naturalized. We adopt a tripartite framework—Ocat (scientific catalogue of existents), Otyp (ontological types), and metaphysics (natures/modal profiles)—and show that classifying as such the relata of putative grounding claims forces a dilemma.
Raoni Arroyo, Jonas R. Becker Arenhart
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical Relativism and the Problem of Incoherence

, 1976
Ethical relativism flirts with incoherence by suggesting that incompatible judgments can both be true. This paper shows that some relativistic theories avoid incoherence while others do not.
Lyons, David B.
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Extension of lessons from business ethics education to business situations: Evidence of role of authority from experimental studies

Acta Psychologica
This study investigates the role of authority figures in shaping business students' perceptions of ethical climate and ethical attitude in the context of business ethics education.
Aindrila Chatterjee, Tulika Sharma
doaj   +1 more source

More Than Regulation: Challenging Habermas on the Future of the Public Sphere

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Bernardo Ferro
wiley   +1 more source

Non‐Naturalist Realism and Quietist Constructivism

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metaethical quietists propose views that share all the features of robust non‐naturalist realism, such as a commitment to cognitivism and irreducibly normative truths, except robust realist non‐naturalists' commitment to non‐natural properties.
Rach Cosker‐Rowland
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Psychology, Ethical Relativism, and Blackburn\u27s Metaethics

, 2008
The central question guiding my thesis is whether moral psychology bears implications for metaethical theories. Specifically, I investigate whether Simon Blackburn\u27s neo-Humean sentimentalist moral psychology impacts the capacity of his metaethical ...
Kemper, Rudo
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Idealism and Relativism Across Cultures

, 2010
This article represents one of the first cross-cultural explorations of ethical ideology among physicians. The study involved a total of 1,109 physicians from six countries (Canada, China, India, Ireland, Japan, and Thailand) who responded to the Ethics
David Cruise Malloy, Phillip R. Sevigny, Peilai L. Liu, Thomas Hadjistavropoulos, Elizabeth Fahey McCarthy, Suchat Paholpak, Shalini Natarajan, Ying C. MacNab, Masaaki Murakami   +8 more
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Ethical Naturalism and Forms of Relativism [PDF]

Society, 2013
Like Philip Gorski I adhere to an ethical naturalist position that in turn underpins amoral realist orientation (e.g., Lawson 2000, 2003b, 2007). Moreover the versions of ethical naturalism that Gorski and I accept seem similar, though Gorski would have to elaborate more for me to determine if they are identical.
openaire   +1 more source