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A Christological Critique of Divine Command Theory

Religions, 2023
This paper presents a theological critique of divine command theory, a metaethical theory stating that moral wrongness is constituted by God’s command.
Martin Jakobsen
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Debunking Arguments in Metaethics and Metaphysics

Metaphysics and Cognitive Science, 2019
Evolutionary debunking arguments abound, but it is widely assumed that they do not arise for our perceptual beliefs about midsized objects, insofar as the adaptive value of our object beliefs cannot be explained without reference to the objects ...
Daniel Z. Korman
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Expressivism, Inferentialism and the Theory of Meaning [PDF]

, 2010
One’s account of the meaning of ethical sentences should fit – roughly, as part to whole – with one’s account of the meaning of sentences in general. When we ask, though, where one widely discussed account of the meaning of ethical sentences fits with ...
Chrisman, Matthew; id_orcid, Chrisman, Matthew   +1 more
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Principia Metaethica: the Alphabet of Moral Theories. Chrisman, M. (2023). What is this Thing Called Metaethics? Abingdon: Routledge.

Sententiae
Review of Chrisman, M. (2023) What is this Thing Called Metaethics? Abingdon: Routledge.
Herman Vykhor
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Track Record Arguments in Normative Ethics

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Track record arguments (TRAs) contend that it speaks in favor of an ethical theory (such as utilitarianism) if many of its past proponents had moral views that were controversial at their time but which we now consider to be clearly true (e.g., women's equal rights in 18th century Europe). This paper explores how to construct potentially sound
Leonard Dung
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An Introduction to Metaethics [PDF]

, 2013
This article is a survey of ...
Joaquin, Jeremiah Joven
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Is Ethics Without God Possible? An Answer, Plus Some Thoughts, About the Question

Religions
Is 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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Disagreement, Cognitive Command, and the Indexicality of Moral Truth

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2015
Moral Relativism can be considered an attractive alternative to realism because relativists can make good sense of cultural and societal disagreements by seeing them as faultless.
Reichardt Bastian
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From Moral Supervenience to Moral Contingentism (In One Easy Step!)

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
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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Schopenhauer and Contemporary Metaethics [PDF]

, 2017
In this chapter, Colin Marshall argues that Schopenhauer’s views about the foundations of morality pose important challenges for five tenets of contemporary metaethics.
Marshall, Colin
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