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Towards Cognitive Moral Quasi-Realism

open access: yesPhilosophies, 2018
There is a long-standing discussion concerning the nature of moral discourse. Multiple views range from realism—according to which moral discourse is closer to scientific discourse than to fictional discourse—to anti-realism—according to which moral ...
Eduardo García-Ramírez
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Normativity, moral realism, and unmasking explanations [PDF]

open access: yesTheoria, 2010
In this paper, I argue that moral projectivism cannot be coherently fix the content of our moral responses. To this purpose, I develop a number of arguments against moral dispositionalism and, in this context, I challenge both David Lewis ...
Josep CORBÍ
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Moral Realism and Anti-Realism in Later Wittgenstein

open access: yesMetaphysics, 2011
By emphasis on cognitive aspect of moral realism, this article surveys various divisions in moral realism and anti-realism and, regarding later Wittgenstein's courses, it explores his views about this matter.
A Sabramiz, S Dabagh
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Two sources of moral reasons [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
One of the core questions in contemporary metaethics concerns the nature and status of moral claims. However, this question presupposes that morality is unified, and that a single metaethical account will suffice.
Macdonald, Iain Ezra
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Egoism as a Problem for Robust Moral Realism

open access: yesReligions, 2023
As a normative ethical theory, ethical egoism may seem compatible with the metaethical theory of moral realism. However, in this article, I will problematize such an assumption.
Espen Ottosen
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Scientific Realism and the Inevitability of Science [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
: This paper examines the question of whether scientific realism is committed to the inevitability of science or is consistent with claims of the contingency of science.
Sankey, Howard, Sankey, H
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Rationalist and Sentimentalist Realism: A Re-examination of the Types of Metaethical Realism and Their Implications [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life
SUBJECT & OBJECTIVES: Ontological inquiry constitutes one of the central concerns of metaethics. Within this field, theories are commonly divided into two main categories: realist and non-realist.
Ali Ahmadi Amin, Mohammad Mahdi Monadi
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Theological Utilitarianism, Supervenience, and Intrinsic Value

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Erik Wielenberg has argued that robust realism can account for the “common-sense moral belief” that “some things distinct from God are intrinsically good”. By contrast, theological stateism cannot account for this belief.
Matthew Alexander Flannagan
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Dreier on the supervenience argument against robust realism

open access: yesFilosofia Unisinos, 2017
Blackburn has put forward a very influential argument against moral realism, which turns around the supervenience relation. Dreier’s version of the supervenience argument has a narrower target.
Wilson Mendonça
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A Wittgensteinian-based Moral Realism: Deflating Hurd’s Moral Combat Antinomy

open access: yesProblema: Anuario de Filosofía y Teoría del Derecho, 2020
El Combate Moral de Heidi Hurd puede entenderse como un intento de proporcionar una justificación moral a la autoridad política en contraste con las diversas teorías contemporáneas, que se limitan a desarrollar una concepción de la legitimidad política ...
Saulo M. M. de Matos
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