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Methodological Naturalism in Metaethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Methodological naturalism arises as a topic in metaethics in two ways. One is the issue of whether we should be methodological naturalists when doing our moral theorising, and another is whether we should take a naturalistic approach to metaethics itself.
Nolan, Daniel
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Naturalizing Metaethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Why Metaethics Needs Empirical Moral Psychology [PDF]

open access: yesCrítica, 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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Metaethics for Everyone

open access: yesProblema: Anuario de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho, 2010
En palabras de Dworkin “el escepticismo moral es una concepción moral”; esto en contraste con la idea más popular de que el verdadero reto para el realismo moral es el escepticismo externo, un escepticismo que proviene de consideraciones no morales ...
Andrew Reinser
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Metasemantics and Metaethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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The Secular Moral Project and the Moral Argument for God: A Brief Synopsis History

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This article provides an overview of the history of what is termed the secular moral project by providing a synopsis of the history of the moral argument for God’s existence and the various historical processes that have contributed to the secularization
Dale Eugene Kratt
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Divine Command Theory, Robust Normative Realism, and the Argument from Psychopathy: A Reply to Erik Wielenberg

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Erik Wielenberg has offered a fascinating argument from moral psychology against a sophisticated theistic account of moral obligations: Divine Command Theory (DCT).
Christopher R. Pruett
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Are Civility Norms Morality Norms’ Little Sister? The Truth Value That Lay Thinking Associates with Civility and Morality Social Norms

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
Previous research shows that civility norms, such as morality norms, are necessary navigational charts to orient an individual in social life. However, there are no studies that establish the extent to which people consider civility norms as objective ...
Armando Rodríguez-Pérez   +4 more
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The Metaethics of Maat [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This essay attempts to recover the ancient Egyptian category of "maat" as a valuable resource for contemporary metaethics and particular attention is given to its affinity with versions of modern non ...
Kevin DeLapp, DeLapp, Kevin
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A New Explanation of Why the Euthyphro Dilemma Is a False Dilemma

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The article gives a new explanation for why the Euthyphro dilemma is a false dilemma and argues that it is a middle position that both the theist and the atheist could accept.
Atle Ottesen Søvik
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