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A Second‐Order Moral Twin‐Earth
Ratio, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 150-157, September 2026.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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Schrödinger's Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics
, 2023 Supplemental file(s) description: None.Metaethics is a field of philosophy that addresses fundamental questions about the nature of morality. One of the central disputes in metaethics is whether moral realism is true.
Bush, Lance
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People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 8, Page 2502-2520, August 2026.Abstract Managing wildfire risk requires consideration of complex and uncertain scientific evidence as well as trade‐offs between different values and goals. Conflicting perspectives on what values and goals are most important, what ought to be done and what trade‐offs are acceptable complicate those decisions.
Pele J. Cannon, Sarah Clement
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Can a Darwinian be a Christian? Sociobiological Issues
Zygon, 2000 This essay looks at the Darwinian sociobiological account of morality, arguing that in major respects this philosophy should prove congenial to theChristian.
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Normative Vagueness: Metaethics
Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4, July/August 2026.ABSTRACT The apparent vagueness of normative predicates such as “permissible,” “wrong,” and “responsible” raises a number of intriguing questions and has prompted a growing body of philosophical literature. In this article, I review recent metaethical discussions on normative vagueness.
Kaj André Zeller
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The Metaethics of Constitutional Adjudication [PDF]
, 2018 The book explores the metaethical foundations of value-based arguments in constitutional adjudication. The argument develops in four steps. First, the book identifies three dominant types of value-based arguments in comparative constitutional practice: the arguments from constitutional identity, common sentiment, and universal reason.
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Wittgenstein On Moral Certainty
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 267-278, July 2026.ABSTRACT Moral certainty is a growing research area in philosophy with implications for current debates on hinge epistemology, moral change and deep moral disagreements. Despite several distinctive lines of disagreement, two assumptions are shared in the current discussion of moral certainty.
Cecilie Eriksen +1 more
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Virtue Constitutivism: Spinoza on Agency and the Grounds of Normativity
European Journal of Analytic PhilosophyThis paper develops Virtue Constitutivism (VC), a Spinozist contribution to the metaethical project of grounding practical normativity in the constitutive features of agency.
Dani Pino
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Divine Command Theory – a critical reflections
Idei, 2018 The technological and cultural development of society brings urgent challenges of an interdisciplinary character that also exert an influence over the humanities. In the ethical discourse on current trends in moral reasoning, the metaethical theory known
Tibor Mahrik
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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 74-87, July 2026.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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