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"Ought" and Error [PDF]

, 2020
The moral error theory generally does not receive good press in metaethics. This paper adds to the bad news. In contrast to other critics, though, I do not attack error theorists’ characteristic thesis that no moral assertion is ever true.
Tiefensee, Christine
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Can the empirical sciences contribute to the moral realism/anti-realism debate? [PDF]

, 2018
An increasing number of moral realists and anti-realists have recently attempted to support their views by appeal to science. Arguments of this kind are typically criticized on the object-level.
Pölzler, Thomas
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Creation and use of organoids in biomedical research and healthcare: the bioethical and metabioethical issues. [PDF]

Cell Adh Migr, 2021
Stoeklé HC, Ivasilevitch A, Marignac G, Hervé C.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Kant: constitutivism as capacities-first philosophy [PDF]

, 2019
Over the last two decades, Kant’s name has become closely associated with the “constitutivist” program within metaethics. But is Kant best read as pursuing a constitutivist approach to meta- normative questions? And if so, in what sense? In this essay, I’
Schafer, Karl
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To the Origins of Modern Moral Philosophy. Darwall, S. L. (2023). Modern Moral Philosophy: from Grotius to Kant. Cambridge, & New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sententiae
Review of Darwall, S. L. (2023). Modern moral philosophy: from Grotius to Kant. Cambridge, & New York: Cambridge University Press.
Vsevolod Khoma
doaj   +1 more source

Sterba on Divine Commands and Fairness

Religions
James Sterba has recently argued against Divine Command Theory (DCT). Sterba also offers, as a preferable alternative to DCT, a metaethical account which he has developed over a number of years (culminating in Sterba’s 2013 book), which attempts to ...
Daniel Molto
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Values in evolutionary biology: a comparison between the contemporary debate on organic progress and Canguilhem's biological philosophy. [PDF]

Hist Philos Life Sci, 2022
De Cesare S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Evolution and ethics viewed from within two metaphors: machine and organism. [PDF]

Hist Philos Life Sci, 2022
Ruse M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Tiantai Metaethics [PDF]

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2021
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‘Ought’-contextualism beyond the parochial [PDF]

, 2019
Despite increasing prominence, ‘ought’-contextualism is regarded with suspicion by most metaethicists. As I’ll argue, however, contextualism is a very weak claim, that every metaethicist can sign up to.
Worsnip, Alex
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