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A Critique of Jonathan Dancy’s “Moral Reasons” (Against Dancy’s Particularism)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality on April 10, 2014
As noted in a previous entry, I recently acquired a copy of Dancy’s Moral Reasons, the most systematic contemporary account of moral particularism on offer, due to a concern that particularism might be being dismissed unfairly. Dancy is a brilliant philosopher, and his work is a joy to read, as he makes compelling and excitingly […]
agent-neutral reasons, agent-relative reasons, anti-cognitivism, anti-Humeanism, cognitivism, Cognitivism vs. non-cognitivism, Consequentialism, deontic properties, Derek Parfit, dilemma, empiricism, Ethical Pluralism, generalism, generalism vs particularism, Hegelianism, holism vs atomism, holistic reasons, Internalism and externalism, Jonathan Dancy, metaethics, metaphysics of value, monism vs. pluralism, moral constraints, moral dilemma, moral judgment, moral knowledge, moral options, moral particularism, moral perception, moral pluralism, moral properties, moral realism, moral reasons, moral regret, Morality, objectivity, particularism, philosophy, pluralism, rationalism vs empiricism, rightness, secondary-quality view, supererogatory acts, supervenience, Thomas Nagel, utilitarianism, Virtue ethics
The Incommensurability of Values (and objectivity, subjectivity, and reason)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality on March 20, 2014
Jmeqvist posted an excellent entry on the inability of interpersonal reasoning-based dialogue to resolve all value conflicts in a polity, and although I disagree with his thesis, today I want to touch on a difficulty for moral/value discourse he points to, and what consequences it suggests for metaethical theorizing. Jmeqvist notes that value conflict resolution […]
error theory, ethical intuitionism, metaethics, moral disagreement, moral subjectivism, Morality, objectivity, philosophy, the argument from disagreement
Kant’s Transcendental Idealism (and illusions, phenomena/noumena, and real vs logical possibility)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Misc. Philosophy on March 15, 2014
Just the other day SelfAwarePatterns published an excellent entry on the overuse of the phrase “illusion” in explaining away phenomena, and as I agree with the dangers of hasty reductionism, I chimed in with a Kantian-inspired comment on the objective reality of “the ways things appear” being guaranteed by a necessary connection to “the ways […]
a priori, Critique of Pure Reason, epistemology, idealism, illusion, Immanuel Kant, Kant's idealism, Kantianism, metaphysics, objectivity, phenomena and noumena, transcendental deduction, transcendental idealism
On Moral Realism and Mind-Independence (and complex, non-natural properties)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality on February 6, 2014
Among non-natural moral realists there is a fascinating debate over whether basic moral properties, such as the properties of ‘goodness’ and ‘rightness’, are simple or complex properties. It is a fruitful debate to have, particularly because it seems many objections to non-naturalism have been against non-naturalist views that posit that ‘good’ is a simple property, […]
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