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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 3, Page 1037-1056, November 2025.Abstract This paper introduces emergent moral non‐naturalism, which holds that moral properties depend on descriptive properties and normative bridge principles for their instantiation, where these principles specify instantiation conditions of moral properties in terms of descriptive properties.
Umut Baysan
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Supervenience and Basic Christian Beliefs
Zygon, 2001 A field‐oriented interpretation of Whiteheadian societies of actual occasions, when used to explain the notion of “strong supervenience” as applied to the mind‐brain problem, allows one to claim that not only higher‐level properties such as ...
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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 55, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article introduces immanent idealism as an alternative path in social ontology and theory. It argues for a distinction between three basic ontological dimensions, the ideational, the institutional and the structural. This approach highlights the cognitional priority of worldviews as the core element of the ideational dimension, and it ...
Christoforos Bouzanis
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Making Moral Judgments on Adequate Grounds: From Transparent Evidence to Justified Moral Belief
Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 147-156, September 2025.ABSTRACT While walking to work, I saw a man in a coffee shop snapping at his server. Assuming that it was wrong of him to treat the server as he did, it seems non‐controversial to say that evidence that he caused the server distress provides at least some evidence that he acted wrongly. What I argue in this paper is that, under certain conditions, such
Shlomit Wygoda Cohen
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Defining Global Supervenience [PDF]
Erkenntnis, 2013 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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The Religious Nature of Ethics
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 4, August 2025.ABSTRACT This paper analyses the nature of ethical concepts, views, and theories and inquires in particular to what extent they may be considered religious. The analysis is not limited to the religious aspects of specific religious worldviews (such as Christianity). The concepts ‘good’ and ‘dignity’ are examined as representative examples.
Jasper Doomen
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Conceptual engineering, language use, and the neutral implementation challenge
Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 3-4, Page 373-388, July 2025.Abstract Conceptual engineering projects have been targeted by what is known as the “implementation challenge,” which calls for an account of how it is possible to change meanings, given that we have no control over the complex ways in which meaning supervenes (for example) on patterns of use.
Delia Belleri
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Quine, Davidson, Relative Essentialism and the Question of Being
Open Philosophy, 2018 Relative essentialism, the view that multiple objects about which there are distinct de re modal truths can occupy the same space at the same time, is a metaphysical view that dissolves a number of metaphysical issues.
Wheeler Samuel C.
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Introduction to the special issue New Thoughts on Conceptual Engineering
Metaphilosophy, Volume 56, Issue 3-4, Page 283-293, July 2025.Abstract Conceptual engineering has emerged in recent times as a significant topic in current philosophical literature. The now vast list of references includes works on more general or conceptual issues, such as describing the nature of conceptual engineering, how we may respond to the different objections to it, how it is related to philosophical ...
Xavier de Donato‐Rodríguez
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Consciousness: A Molecular Perspective
Philosophies, 2017 This perspective examines the role of chemistry and molecular biology for a science of consciousness. Opposed to the consensus view, we argue that the molecular organization of biological systems is key to arrive at a thorough understanding of the ...
Robert Prentner
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