Sökning: "Moral Disagreement"

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  1. 1. Moral Reality. A Defence of Moral Realism

    Författare :Caj Strandberg; Praktisk filosofi; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; epistemology; ideology; Praktisk filosofi; ideologi; kunskapsteori; metafysik; estetik; Morallära; Systematic philosophy; Moral science; Gilbert Harman.; Simon Blackburn; Michael Smith; J. L. Mackie; G. E. Moore; David Brink; Nicholas Sturgeon; moral explanation; argument from queerness; metaphysics; supervenience; fetishist argument; externalism; internalism; moral motivation; moral properties; open question argument; moral reason; moral disagreement; naturalism; reductionism; error-theory; Cornell realism; moral realism; non-cognitivism; meta-ethics; ethics; aesthetics;

    Sammanfattning : The main aim of this thesis is to defend moral realism. In chapter 1, I argue that moral realism is best understood as the view that (1) moral sentences have truth-value (cognitivism), (2) there are moral properties that make some moral sentences true (success-theory), and (3) moral properties are not reducible to non-moral properties (non-reductionism). LÄS MER

  2. 2. Moral Disagreement and the Significance of Higher-Order Evidence

    Författare :Marco Tiozzo; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Moral Disagreement; Higher-Order Evidence; Moral Skepticism; Peer Disagreement; Faultless Disagreement; Moral Intransigence; Epistemic Rationality;

    Sammanfattning : Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the philosophy of disagreement, especially in epistemology where there is an intense debate over the epistemic significance of disagreement and higher-order evidence more generally. Considerations about disagreement also play an important role in metaethics – most prominently in various arguments that purport to establish moral skepticism. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Communities of Judgment : Towards a Teleosemantic Theory of Moral Thought and Discourse

    Författare :Karl Bergman; Sharon Rider; Andrew Reisner; Marc Artiga; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ruth Millikan; teleosemantics; biosemantics; content; descriptive content; meta-semantics; meta-ethics; cognitivism; non-cognitivism; moral objectivity; moral relativism; moral disagreement; moral psychology; evolution of morality; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis offers a teleosemantic account of moral discourse and judgment. It develops a number of views about the function and content of moral judgments and the nature of moral discourse based on Ruth Millikan’s theory of intentional content and the functions of intentional attitudes. LÄS MER

  4. 4. The Duality of Moral Language : On Hybrid Theories in Metaethics

    Författare :Stina Björkholm; Anandi Hattiangadi; Anders J. Schoubye; Mark Schroeder; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Metaethics; Hybrid Expressivism; Hybrid Descriptivism; Dynamic Descriptivism; Moral Disagreement; The Frege-Geach problem; The Practicality Problem; Philosophy; filosofi;

    Sammanfattning : Moral language displays a characteristic duality. On the one hand, moral claims seem to be similar to descriptive claims: To say that an act is right (or wrong) seems to be a matter of making an assertion, thus indicating that the speaker has a moral belief about which she can be correct or mistaken. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Guiding Concepts : Essays on Normative Concepts, Knowledge, and Deliberation

    Författare :Olle Risberg; Erik Carlson; Andrew Reisner; Wlodek Rabinowicz; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; action-guidance; adherence; all things considered ought; alternative normative concepts; conceptual engineering; debunking; deliberation; disagreement; epistemic pluralism; epistemology; ethics; external world skepticism; idealization; metaethics; meta-skepticism; moral skepticism; normativity; ought; reasons; response-dependence; uncertainty; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses a range of questions about normativity, broadly understood. Recurring themes include (i) the idea of normative ‘action-guidance’, and the connection between normativity and motivational states, (ii) the possibility of normative knowledge and its role in deliberation, and (iii) the question of whether (and if so, how) normative concepts can themselves be evaluated. LÄS MER