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View article: Aesthetic Non-Naturalism
Aesthetic Non-Naturalism Open
Aesthetic non-naturalism is the view that there are objective aesthetic truths that hold in virtue of sui generis facts. This view is seldom explicitly endorsed in philosophical aesthetics. I argue that many aestheticians should treat it a…
View article: How to explain the possibility of wholesale moral error: a reply to Akhlaghi
How to explain the possibility of wholesale moral error: a reply to Akhlaghi Open
Farbod Akhlaghi has argued that noncognitivists and naturalists cannot explain the epistemic possibility of wholesale moral error. He thinks this shows that noncognitivism and naturalism are false. I argue that noncognitivists and naturali…
View article: Relativism and the Metaphysics of Value
Relativism and the Metaphysics of Value Open
I argue that relativists about aesthetic and other evaluative language face some of the same objections as non-naturalists in ethics. These objections concern the metaphysics required to make it work. Unlike (some) contextualists, relativi…
View article: Streumer on Non-Cognitivism and Reductivism About Normative Judgement
Streumer on Non-Cognitivism and Reductivism About Normative Judgement Open
Bart Streumer believes that the following principle is true of all normative judgements: (A) When two people make conflicting normative judgements, at most one of them is correct. Streumer argues that noncognitivists are unable to explain …
View article: Expressivism and Arguing about Art
Expressivism and Arguing about Art Open
Peter Kivy claims that expressivists in aesthetics cannot explain why we argue about art. The situation would be different in the case of morals. Moral attitudes lead to action, and since actions affect people, we have a strong incentive t…
View article: Meaning in Life and the Metaphysics of Value
Meaning in Life and the Metaphysics of Value Open
According to subjectivist views about a meaningful life, ones life is meaningful in virtue of desire satisfaction or feelings of fulfilment. Standard counterexamples consist of satisfaction found through trivial or immoral tasks. In respon…
View article: Are the Moral Fixed Points Conceptual Truths?
Are the Moral Fixed Points Conceptual Truths? Open
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View article: Meaning in Life: In Defense of the Hybrid View
Meaning in Life: In Defense of the Hybrid View Open
According to Susan Wolf's hybrid view about meaning in life, a life is meaningful in virtue of subjective attraction to objectively valuable pursuits. Recently, several philosophers have presented counterexamples to the subjective element …