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Reid on Favors, Injuries, and the Natural Virtue of Justice [PDF]

, 2015
Reid argues that Hume’s claim that justice is an artificial virtue is inconsistent with the fact that gratitude is a natural sentiment. This chapter shows that Reid’s argument succeeds only given a philosophy of mind and action that Hume rejects.
Powell, Lewis, Yaffe, Gideon
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Reasons, rationality, and opaque sweetening: Hare's “No Reason” argument for taking the sugar

Noûs, EarlyView.
Abstract Caspar Hare presents a compelling argument for “taking the sugar” in cases of opaque sweetening: you have no reason to take the unsweetened option, and you have some reason to take the sweetened one. I argue that this argument fails—there is a perfectly good sense in which you do have a reason to take the unsweetened option. I suggest a way to
Ryan Doody
wiley   +1 more source

Aesthetic Internalism and two Normative Puzzles [PDF]

, 2016
One of the most discussed views in metaethics is Moral Internalism, according to which there is a conceptually necessary connection between moral judgments and motivation to act.
Strandberg, Caj
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Welfare and Felt Duration

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should we understand the duration of a pleasant or unpleasant sensation, insofar as its duration modulates how good or bad the experience is overall? Given that we seem able to distinguish between subjective and objective duration and that how well or badly someone's life goes is naturally thought of as something to be assessed from her ...
Andreas L. Mogensen
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ZDANIA AKSJOLOGICZNE Z PERSPEKTYWY NATURALIZMU [PDF]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2010
This paper discusses axiological sentences and views about them. Simple axiological sentences fall under the scheme (1) „a is P ”, where a stands for a proper name or a description and P corresponds to an axiological predicate, such as „is good”, or „is ...
Jan Woleński
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Incoherent but Reasonable: A Defense of Truth-Abstinence in Political Liberalism [PDF]

, 2020
A strength of liberal political institutions is their ability to accommodate pluralism, both allowing divergent comprehensive doctrines as well as constructing the common ground necessary for diverse people to live together.
Schaefer, Alexander, Siscoe, Wes
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Hypothetical Justifications [PDF]

, 2009
A basic conviction in moral non-cognitivism is: only hypothetical norms may be justified. Hartmut Kliemt argues for a moderate variant: there are only hypothetical justifications of norms whether the norms are hypothetical or categorical in kind. In this
Lahno, Bernd
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Beyond Normativity

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a growing number of philosophers come to defend normative nihilism. Even if their arguments do not induce in many a belief in normative nihilism, there may be grounds on which to be less than certain about the falsity of normative nihilism.
Lewis Williams
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In opposition to alethic views of moral responsibility

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract A standard analysis of moral responsibility states that an agent A is morally responsible for φ‐ing if and only if it is fitting to have—depending on the nature of φ—a negative or positive reactive emotion vis‐à‐vis A on account of A's φ‐ing. Proponents of Alethic views of moral responsibility maintain that the relevant notion of fittingness ...
Robert Pál‐Wallin
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Espressionismo, olismo, deflazionismo in Simon Blackburn [PDF]

, 2008
Expressionism, holism, and deflationism are central concepts in Blackburn quasi-realistic metaethics. The paper deals with these in order to evaluate the general tenability of Blackburn’s version of non ...
Marrone, Pierpaolo
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