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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is Ethics Without God Possible? An Answer, Plus Some Thoughts, About the Question
ReligionsIs 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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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.
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