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The Metaphysics of Moral Explanations [PDF]

, 2020
It’s commonly held that particular moral facts are explained by ‘natural’ or ‘descriptive’ facts, though there’s disagreement over how such explanations work.
Fogal, Daniel, Risberg, Olle
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Love and the Basis of Dignity

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract It is often said that dignity is the ground of human rights. But what grounds dignity? According to proponents of the metaphysical view, dignity is grounded in our rational capacities, our sense of justice, or a disjunctive list of valuable capacities.
Jordan David Thomas Walters
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Making metaethics work for AI: realism and anti-realism [PDF]

, 2018
Engineering an artificial intelligence to play an advisory role in morally charged decision making will inevitably introduce meta-ethical positions into the design.
Frank, Lily E., Klincewicz, Michal
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Disagreement, Cognitive Command, and the Indexicality of Moral Truth

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2015
Moral Relativism can be considered an attractive alternative to realism because relativists can make good sense of cultural and societal disagreements by seeing them as faultless.
Reichardt Bastian
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Charting Moral Psychology’s Significance for Bioethics: Routes to Bioethical Progress, its Limits, and Lessons from Moral Philosophy

Diametros, 2020
Empirical moral psychology is sometimes dismissed as normatively insignificant because it plays no decisive role in settling ethical disputes. But that conclusion, even if it is valid for normative ethics, does not extend to bioethics. First, in contrast
Michael Klenk
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Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on the contemporary taxonomy of the metaphysics of race, this paper shows that Kant's theory of race occupies a distinct metaphysical position on race. Second, it argues that Kant's metaphysics of race inherently produces racist claims.
Reza Mosayebi
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Is Ethics Without God Possible? An Answer, Plus Some Thoughts, About the Question

Religions
Is Ethics Without God Possible? In this article, I argue for the conclusion that ethics without God is possible. First, I begin by offering a brief overview of metaethics, outlining the main options concerning the nature of ethical statements.
Michael Tooley
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No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is often taken for granted that right‐makers, that is, the things that make something—say, an action—right, do so by explaining why it is right. This view can be spelled out in terms of metaphysical ground: right‐making just is grounding of rightness facts.
Singa Behrens
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Socratic Metaethics Imagined [PDF]

, 2017
This is an imagined dialogue between one of the more famous skeptics regarding moral attribution, Thrasymachus, and an imagined Socrates who, through the convenient miracle of time travel, returns to Athens after exposure to contemporary metaethics, now ...
Ross, Steven, Warenski, Lisa
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Naturalizacja języka etycznego w ramach ekspresywizmu, czyli o owocności perspektywy ewolucjonistycznej w metaetyce (Expressivism and the Naturalization of the Language of Morals: On the Fruitfulness of Evolutionary Perspective in Metaethics) [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2010
escriptivists’ method of naturalizing moral language is neither the only nor the most promising one in metaethics. The paper deals with attempts to combine the expressivistic account of moral concepts with an evolutionary research programme.
Adrian Kuźniar
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