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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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Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.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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What if God commanded something horrible? A pragmatics-based defence of divine command metaethics
Religious Studies: An International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, 2020 The objection of horrible commands claims that divine command metaethics is doomed to failure because it is committed to the extremely counterintuitive assumption that torture of innocents, rape, and murder would be morally obligatory if God commanded ...
Philipp Kremers
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‘Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought’, Edited by Reshef Adam-Segal and Edmund Dain
Nordic Wittgenstein Review, 2018 A review of Wittgenstein’s Moral Thought, edited by Reshef Adam-Segal and Edmund Dain.
Daniel Sharp
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Interpretation of the Origin by F. Rosenzweig and M. Heidegger
RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2022 The research focuses on the problem of interpretation of such a concept as the origin, which is ultimate for philosophical thought and bases existentially oriented constructions of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Heidegger.
Maksim F. Litvinov
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No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers
Noûs, EarlyView.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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, 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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Naturalism in Metaethics [PDF]
, 2015 This chapter offers an introduction to naturalist views in contemporary metaethics. Such views attempt to find a place for normative properties (such as goodness and rightness) in the concrete physical world as it is understood by both science and ...
Suikkanen, Jussi +2 more
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A Scale for Mixed Reasons for Belief
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Epistemic reasons matter for what you should believe. But then, some think there are practical reasons that matter, too. How could both sorts of reasons be weighed together to determine the doxastic states you ought to hold, all things considered?
Matthew Vermaire
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Regarding the intersection of metaethics and applied ethics
XLinguae, 2020 Philosophical research devotes little attention to the intersection of metaethics and applied ethics. If researchers devote any attention to these fields, they study them separately.
M. Ambrozy
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