Jonas Olson presents a critical survey of moral error theory, the view that there are no moral facts and so all moral claims are false. In Part I (History), he explores the historical context of …
Can normative words like" good,"" ought," and" reason" be defined in entirely non-normative terms? Confusion of Tongues argues that they can, advancing a new End-Relational theory …
Impassioned Belief presents an original expressivist theory of normative judgments. According to his Ecumenical Expressivism normative judgements are hybrid states partly …
Unbelievable Errors defends an error theory about all normative judgements: not just moral judgements, but also judgements about reasons for action, judgements about reasons for …
T Zürcher - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The desire to die brings about the most radical consequences that can occur in a human life. It therefore requires a high degree of justification. Questions have been raised as to whether …
Often, when there is a reason for you to do something, it is the kind of thing to motivate you to do it. For example, if Max and Caroline are deciding whether to go to the Alcove for dinner …
C Howard - Oxford studies in metaethics, 2019 - books.google.com
The recently influential “reasons-first” approach to normativity says that reasons are the fundamental elements of the normative domain, and that all other normative facts …
We defend a contextualist account of normative judgments as relativized both to (i) information and to (ii) standards or ends against recent objections that turn on practices of …
Many philosophers have been attracted to the view that reasons are premises of good reasoning–that reasons to φ are premises of good reasoning towards φ‐ing. However, while …