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In opposition to alethic views of moral responsibility

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 85-103, March 2026.
Abstract A standard analysis of moral responsibility states that an agent A is morally responsible for φ‐ing if and only if it is fitting to have—depending on the nature of φ—a negative or positive reactive emotion vis‐à‐vis A on account of A's φ‐ing. Proponents of Alethic views of moral responsibility maintain that the relevant notion of fittingness ...
Robert Pál‐Wallin
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Zarathustra's metaethics [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2015
Nietzsche takes moral judgments to be false beliefs, and encourages us to pursue subjective nonmoral value arising from our passions. His view that strong and unified passions make one virtuous is mathematically derivable from this subjectivism and a conceptual analysis of virtue, explaining his evaluations of character and the nature of the Overman.
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Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 104-122, March 2026.
Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
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Sterba on Divine Commands and Fairness

Religions
James Sterba has recently argued against Divine Command Theory (DCT). Sterba also offers, as a preferable alternative to DCT, a metaethical account which he has developed over a number of years (culminating in Sterba’s 2013 book), which attempts to ...
Daniel Molto
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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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No puzzles about truth for nonrealist cognitivism

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 38-54, March 2026.
Abstract Derek Parfit defended a metaethical theory which he calls nonrealist cognitivism. According to this theory, there are irreducibly normative truths that stand without ontological implications. A lot of literature has been dedicated to raising puzzles about the coherency of such a theory. The aim of this article is to solve a puzzle specifically
Evan Jack, Mustafa Khuramy
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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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David P lunkett , Scott J. S hapiro et Kevin T oh (dir.), Dimensions of normativity : new essays on metaethics and jurisprudence , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019. [PDF]

, 2023
Anna C. Zielinska
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The practicality of moral language and dynamic descriptivism

Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 158-176, February 2026.
When speakers make moral claims, they often indicate that they are themselves committed to, or aim to commit their addressee to, certain actions or attitudes. The way that moral language is practical in these ways is often considered to be detrimental for any descriptivist semantics of moral language.
Stina Björkholm
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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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