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Why Metaethics Needs Empirical Moral Psychology [PDF]
Crítica, 2020 What is the significance of empirical moral psychology for metaethics? In this article we take up Michael Ruse’s evolutionary debunking argument against moral realism and reassess it in the context of the empirical state of the art.
Jeroen Hopster, Michael Klenk
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Metasemantics and Metaethics [PDF]
, 2017 Metaethicists disagree about the semantic content of normative and evaluative terms. To adjudicate such disagreements, we need consider different metasemantic theories, which seek to explain what makes it the case that certain words (and the thoughts they express) have the semantic contents they do.
Schroeter, L, Schroeter, F
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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, 2016 Decades ago, it was suggested that epistemology could be naturalized, meaning, roughly, that it could be treated as an empirically-informed psychological inquiry. In more recent years, there has been a concerted effort to naturalize ethics, with a focus on questions in moral psychology, and occasional normative ethics. Less effort has been put into the
Prinz, Jesse
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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 ...
Torben Spaak
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Hume’s Dictum and Metaethics [PDF]
The Philosophical Quarterly, 2019 AbstractThis paper explores the metaethical ramifications of a coarse-grained criterion of property identity, sometimes referred to as Hume's dictum. According to Hume's dictum, properties are identical if and only if they are necessarily co-extensive.
Victor Moberger
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Environmental Education And Metaethics
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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The Relativistic Car: Applying Metaethics to the Debate about Self-Driving Vehicles. [PDF]
Ethical Theory Moral Pract, 2021 Almost all participants in the debate about the ethics of accidents with self-driving cars have so far assumed moral universalism. However, universalism may be philosophically more controversial than is commonly thought, and may lead to undesirable ...
Pölzler T.
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Conceptual Role Accounts of Meaning in Metaethics [PDF]
, 2017 This paper explains three ways to develop a conceptual role view of meaning in metaethics. First, it suggests that there’s a way to combine inspiration from noncognitivism with a particular form of the conceptual role view to form a noncognitivist view ...
M. Chrisman
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Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2021 This paper is a contribution to the emerging field of comparative metaethics, which aims to analyse the metaethical views of philosophical traditions outside the Western mainstream.
J. Dockstader
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