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Environmental Education And Metaethics [PDF]
Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, 2004 AbstractContrā Dale Jamieson, the study of the metaethical foundations of environmental ethics may well lead students to a more environmentally responsible way of life. For although metaethics is rarely decisive in decision making and action, there are two kinds of circumstances in which it can play a crucial role in our practical decisions.
Goldin, Owen
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, 2019 Bimal Krishna Matilal (1935-1991) was a Harvard-educated Indian philosopher best known for his contributions to logic, but who also wrote on wide variety of topics, including metaethics.
Bommarito, Nicolas, King, Alex
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 AbstractIn this article, I argue,inter alia, that Kelsen’s mature view—as expressed in, and around the time of, the second edition ofReine Rechtslehre—was that of a metaethical relativist, and that the commitment to metaethical relativism was the reason why Kelsen defended democracy as well as tolerance in the shape of a constitutionally guaranteed ...
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Rorty’s Promise in Metaethics [PDF]
, 2017 Little attention is given to Richard Rorty’s metaethical views. No doubt this stems from the fact that most commentators are more interested in his metaphilosophical views; most see his metaethical views, offered in scattered passages, as just the ...
Donelson, Raff
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Fitting-Attitude Analyses and the Relation Between Final and Intrinsic Value
Les Ateliers de l’Ethique, 2014 This paper examines the debate as to whether something can have final value in virtue of its relational (i.e., non-intrinsic) properties, or, more briefly put, whether final value must be intrinsic.
Antoine C. Dussault
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Value and Scale: Some Observations and a Proposal [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 In this paper, I investigate the scalar semantics of evaluative adjective in general, and of good in particular. Lassiter (2017) has argued that good, when taking propositions as arguments, has an interval scale.
Andrés Soria-Ruiz
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Conceptual Analysis in Metaethics [PDF]
, 2017 A critical survey of various positions on the nature, use, possession, and analysis of normative concepts. We frame our treatment around G.E. Moore’s Open Question Argument, and the ways metaethicists have responded by departing from a Classical Theory ...
Finlay, Stephen, Laskowski, N. G.
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Two Conceptions of Practical Reasons
Les Ateliers de l’Ethique, 2016 I discuss and compare Joseph Raz’s and Christine Korsgaard’s accounts of reasons for action. One fundamental disagreement separating the two approaches is the role that they assign to two central features of practical deliberation: Korsgaard assigns ...
Christoph Hanisch
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Religions, 2023 This paper develops Mark D. Linville’s brief description of “a sort of moral fine-tuning argument”. I develop the argument in four ways: I unpack the argument and give it a clear formulation, I unpack the theistic explanation of why a somewhat reliable ...
Martin Jakobsen
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