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On Our Cosmic (In)significance
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article discusses three interpretations of cosmic significance, all of which reveal something important about the notion of significance. Along the way, it proposes a unified view of significance by combining elements of each of the views.
Oskari Sivula
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A New Transcendental Argument for Robust Realism
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents a new argument for robust realism, the view about normativity that Philip Stratton‐Lake held. The argument has three main premises: that we cannot believe an error theory about all normative judgements; that trying to endorse the best version of expressivism makes us believe robust realism; and that trying to endorse the ...
Bart Streumer
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, 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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Scepticism Without Consequence? On Hard Incompatibilism and Its Normative Recommendations
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Free will scepticism about moral responsibility denies that human agents possess the kind of control required for basic desert moral responsibility. This position is often taken to have substantive normative implications, including the rejection of retributive punishment and support for reformist approaches to criminal justice.
Thomas Nys, Gijs van Donselaar
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The Modern Law Review, Volume 89, Issue 5, Page 785-814, September 2026.This paper gives an account of the actus reus for a criminal attempt. Conduct that is more than merely preparatory, we argue, intrudes on the same protected domain as the complete offence. This takes a normative approach to actus reus, focusing on the reasons that the defendant acted against.
Angelo Ryu, Trenton Sewell
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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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Socratic Metaethics Imagined [PDF]
, 2017 A time machine mysteriously appeared one day in ancient Athens. Curious about the future of philosophical dialogue, Socrates entered the device and traveled to the 21st Century.
Warenski, Lisa, Ross, Steve
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The Logical Possibility of Moral Dilemmas in Expressivist Semantics: A Case Study
European Journal of Analytic PhilosophyIn 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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