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Track Record Arguments in Normative Ethics

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Track record arguments (TRAs) contend that it speaks in favor of an ethical theory (such as utilitarianism) if many of its past proponents had moral views that were controversial at their time but which we now consider to be clearly true (e.g., women's equal rights in 18th century Europe). This paper explores how to construct potentially sound
Leonard Dung
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Fittingness and Bioethics

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In bioethics, two sorts of normative categories are commonly used. These can be split into two families: the deontic categories, such as ‘right’, ‘ought to’ and ‘requirement’, and the evaluative categories, including ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘better than’ and ‘the best’. While other normative concepts such as ‘virtue’ and ‘vice’ have also been discussed,
Ronan Ó Maonaile, James Hart
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Eksperymenty myślowe a utylitaryzm. Odpowiedź na artykuł Włodka Rabinowicza (Thought Experiments and Utilitarianism. A Reply to Wlodek Rabinowicz’s “Preference Utilitarianism by Way of Preference Change?’) [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2010
It is a comment on W. Rabinowicz "Utilitarianism by Way of Preference Change?", I defend Richard Hare`s argument for utilitarianism. I argue that Hare`s role reversal thought experiments can, despite of W.Rabinowicz criticism, lead to transforming ...
Krzysztof Saja
doaj  

A Christological Critique of Divine Command Theory

Religions, 2023
This paper presents a theological critique of divine command theory, a metaethical theory stating that moral wrongness is constituted by God’s command.
Martin Jakobsen
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Non‐Naturalist Realism and Quietist Constructivism

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Metaethical quietists propose views that share all the features of robust non‐naturalist realism, such as a commitment to cognitivism and irreducibly normative truths, except robust realist non‐naturalists' commitment to non‐natural properties.
Rach Cosker‐Rowland
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Principia Metaethica: the Alphabet of Moral Theories. Chrisman, M. (2023). What is this Thing Called Metaethics? Abingdon: Routledge.

Sententiae
Review of Chrisman, M. (2023) What is this Thing Called Metaethics? Abingdon: Routledge.
Herman Vykhor
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Rationalist and Sentimentalist Realism: A Re-examination of the Types of Metaethical Realism and Their Implications [PDF]

International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life
SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: Ontological inquiry constitutes one of the central concerns of metaethics. Within this field, theories are commonly divided into two main categories: realist and non-realist.
Ali Ahmadi Amin, Mohammad Mahdi Monadi
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A Second‐Order Moral Twin‐Earth

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How to understand metaphysical disputes is a disputed matter. Within this broader dispute, deflationist approaches read some of the traditional metaphysical debates as having metalinguistic negotiations at their roots. That is, some metaphysical disagreements are read as speakers commending each other to use some concepts over others ...
Pyro Suarez
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Prichard’s Intutionism [PDF]

Ideas y Valores, 2005
Resumen:El propósito de este artículo es presentar las principales tesis de Harold Arthur Prichard sobre la moral. De acuerdo con Prichard, toda la filosofía moral está basada en un conjunto de errores, similares en muchos aspectos a los que produce la ...
Mauricio Rengifo Gardeazábal
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Brentano’s Metaethics

, 2017
This chapter explains Franz Brentano's metaethical theory and how it purports to deal with such difficulties. Brentano explains correctness in emotions by analogy with correctness in judgements. For a judgement to be correct is for it to concord with a judgement made by someone who judges with self-evidence (Evidenz).
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