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Um breve estudo histórico-analítico da Lei de Hume A brief historic-analytical study of Hume's Law

Trans/Form/Ação, 2006
A Lei de Hume, pela qual um dever ser não pode resultar de um ser, e a sua recíproca, pela qual um ser não pode resultar de um dever ser, ocupam posições proeminentes nas discussões de metaética.
Frank Thomas Sautter
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Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity

Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 374-386, Fall 2026.
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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No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers

Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 606-618, September 2026.
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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The Paradox of Axiology. A Phenomenological Approach to Value Theory

Phenomenology and Mind, 2019
Are values more than measures of our needs and desires or internalized social and cultural rules of behaviour, originating in cultures and devoid of any universally accessible objectivity? Is there a place for values in a world of facts?
Roberta De Monticelli
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Error Theory in Metaethics

, 2017
Error theories have been proposed and defended in several different areas of philosophy. In addition to ethics, there are error theories about numbers, color, free will, and personal identity. Moral error theories differ in scope.
Jonas Olson, Olson, Jonas,, Olson, Jonas
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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, Eklund, Matti,, Eklund, Matti   +2 more
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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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From Moral Supervenience to Moral Contingentism (In One Easy Step!)

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 3, Page 224-237, September 2026.
ABSTRACT According to the Divide & Conquer (DC) strategy (Fogal and Risberg 2020) for explaining moral supervenience, the modal covariation between moral and natural properties can be partly explained by appeal to pure moral principles. Bhogal (2022) has recently argued that DC fails.
Alexios Stamatiadis‐Bréhier
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The Logical Possibility of Moral Dilemmas in Expressivist Semantics: A Case Study

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
In this paper, using Mark Schroeder’s (2008a) expressivist semantic framework for normative language as a case study, I will identify difficulties that even an expressivist semantic theory capable of addressing the Frege-Geach problem will encounter in ...
Ryo Tanaka
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Stoletý solitér Hans Albert v kontextu evropské filosofie (nejen) 20. století

Filosofický časopis, 2021
On the occasion of the hundredth birthday of an important proponent of critical rationalism, Hans Albert, this article maps the key moments of his intellectual development and above all outlines his relationship to selected philosophical currents of (not
Paitlová, Jitka
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