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Egoism as a Problem for Robust Moral Realism
Religions, 2023 As a normative ethical theory, ethical egoism may seem compatible with the metaethical theory of moral realism. However, in this article, I will problematize such an assumption.
Espen Ottosen
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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.
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 Most of us agree about the rules or norms of morality, what philosophers call substantive or normative ethics: be kind to small children, do not cheat on exams and return your library books on time.
Michael Ruse
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Schopenhauer and Contemporary Metaethics [PDF]
, 2017 In this chapter, Colin Marshall argues that Schopenhauer’s views about the foundations of morality pose important challenges for five tenets of contemporary metaethics.
Marshall, Colin
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Variance Theses in Ontology and Metaethics [PDF]
, 2019 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 +2 more
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A Glance at the Book: Metaethics Written by Simon Kirchin and a Word on its Translation [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2018 The book Metaethics written by Simon Kirchin is one a book on metaethics, first published by the Palgrave Macmillan institute in 2012. Kirchin was a faculty member at the University of Kent, England, who wrote an introductory textbook on metaethics ...
Mohammad Zandi +2 more
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‘Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought’, Edited by Reshef Adam-Segal and Edmund Dain
Nordic Wittgenstein Review, 2018 A review of Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought, edited by Reshef Adam-Segal and Edmund Dain.
Daniel Sharp
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, 2010 Metaethical questions have occupied some of the greatest philosophers: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Hume and Nietzsche, amongst many others, have all written on issues about the nature of moral thinking and moral practice.
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Metaethics as conceptual engineering [PDF]
, 2023 On the traditional approach to metaethics, theories are expected to be faithful to ordinary normative discourse—or at worst (if we think the ordinary discourse is metaphysically unsound) to deviate from it as little as possible.
Skarsaune, Knut Olav
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A Pragmatic Approach to Metaethics [PDF]
, 2023 Metaethics is ordinarily thought of as the investigation of the metaphysics, semantics, psychology, and epistemology of normative judgment. However, metaethicists have recently started asking normative questions about our normative judgments as well ...
Riggs, Jared
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