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Variance Theses in Ontology and Metaethics [PDF]

open access: yesConceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, 2020
The chapter illustrates conceptual engineering by bringing up a number of issues in metaontology and metaethics. A prominent debate in metaontology relates to whether some existence concept is metaphysically privileged.
Matti Eklund, Eklund Matti
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Sensibility and moral values in Mengzi’s metaethics

Asian Philosophy, 2022
This paper examines the current scholarship on Mengzi’s metaethical thoughts and reconstructs Mengzi’s view to contribute to our understanding of the relation between sensibility and the apparent objectivity of morality.
Meng Zhang
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Angsty Metaethics

open access: yes, 2018
Some disagreements evoke philosophical angst: the judgment that the truth of some thesis is essential for the meaning or intelligibility of our lives, combined with the worry that it might be false. Chapter 1 develops an account of this attitude, its phenomenology, and its normative status in contrast to related attitudes ...
Blanchard, Joshua
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Folk metaethics and error

Philosophical Psychology, 2022
Philosophers have in recent years displayed an increasing interest in investigating folk metaethical beliefs using rigorous empirical methods. Taken together, these studies put significant pressure on many philosophical theories that depend on the truth ...
Xinkan Zhao
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The Metaethics of Gender

Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 16, 2021
This chapter argues that some of the traditional arguments for expressivism in metaethics carry over to the case of gender ascriptions. Descriptivist views about the semantics of gender ascriptions fall short in explaining certain kinds of disagreement ...
S. Mcgrath
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Philippa Foot's Metaethics

, 2021
This Element presents an interpretation and defence of Philippa Foot's ethical naturalism. It begins with the often neglected grammatical method that Foot derives from an interpretation of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy.
John Hacker-Wright
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The irrationality of folk metaethics

Philosophical Psychology, 2021
Many philosophers and psychologists have thought that people untutored in philosophy are moral realists. On this view, when people make moral judgments, they interpret their judgments as tracking universal, objective moral facts.
Ross Colebrook
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Clarifying Moral Clarification: On Taylor’s Contribution to Metaethics

International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2021
Given Taylor’s status as one of the most important thinkers in contemporary moral and political philosophy, it is somewhat surprising that so little attention has been paid to the implications of his views for metaethics.
Michiel Meijer
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