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Revisiting Folk Moral Realism [PDF]
Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 2016 Moral realists believe that there are objective moral truths. According to one of the most prominent arguments in favour of this view, ordinary people experience morality as realist-seeming, and we have therefore prima facie reason to believe that realism is true.
Pölzler T.
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MORAL REALISM AND EXPERT DISAGREEMENT [PDF]
Trames, 2020 The fact of moral disagreement is often raised as a problem for moral realism. The idea is that disagreement amongst people or communities on moral issues is to be taken as evidence that there are no objective moral facts.
Prabhpal Singh
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How to define ‘Moral Realism’ [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2020 Moral realism is the doctrine that some propositions asserting that some action is ‘morally’ good (obligatory, bad, or wrong) are true. This paper examines three different definitions of what it is for an action to be ‘morally’ good (with corresponding ...
Richard Swinburne
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A Critical Investigation into Moral Error Theory [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2012 Moral Error Theory was formulated by J. L. Mackie and later modified and supported by other scholars, including Richard Joyce. The theory has been so influential that some authorities consider new realism of late 20th century a response to Moral Error ...
gholamhoseyn tavakoli
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The contstructivistic defence of the objectivity of moral standards and natural law that does not require the debate on moral realism [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2017 The main goal of Kenneth R. Westphal’s How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law: Justifying Strict Objectivity without Debating Moral Realism is to defend the objectivity of moral standards and natural law and thus avoid the discussion about ...
Šljukić Slavenko
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Normative Reasons, Epistemic Autonomy, and Accountability to God
Religions, 2023 According to many, human autonomy is necessary for moral action and yet incompatible with being morally accountable to God’s divine commands. By issuing commands that ground normative facts, God demands our accountability without understanding our ...
Brandon Rickabaugh
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Reductionism in Avicenna's Moral Thought [PDF]
حکمت سینوی, 2023 The aim of the present study is to organize Avicenna’s meta-ethical thought, providing a foundation for understanding the ethical system derived from his opinions. The primary focus is on determining Avicenna's overarching approach to the existence
behrouz muhammadimunfared
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Moral realism, quasi‐realism and moral steadfastness
Ratio, 2021 AbstractSome moral propositions are so obviously true that we refuse to doubt them, even where we believe that many people disagree. Following Fritz and McPherson, I call our behaviour in such cases ‘moral steadfastness’. In this paper, I argue for two metaethical implications of moral steadfastness.
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Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2022 Moral agency describes one’s comprehensive moral attitude developed through continuous evaluations of social and contextual information. However, in fixed-narrative games like The Last of Us (TLOU), player moral agency is compromised by excessive ...
Karoline A. Anderson
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Naturalistic Moral Realism and Evolutionary Biology
Philosophies, 2021 Perhaps the most familiar understanding of “naturalism” derives from Quine, understanding it as a continuity of empirical theories of the world as described through the scientific method.
Paul Bloomfield
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