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I take it that values (moral value, aesthetic value, etc.) are only knowable by ostensive definition (viz. by direct experience with the types of properties that any particular value is understood...
04 April 2016 4,702 33 View
How do empirical coherence theories of value cash out the notion of “objectivity”? In other words, if some value is considered "objective" in a sense that turns on the relative “ease” in which a...
10 October 2015 5,617 0 View
It strikes me that the longstanding debate about this issue does not include (at least to my knowledge) a comparison of the responses given by adults with social experience vs. children. The...
09 September 2015 3,227 5 View
Human beings, by virtue of natural selection, are disposed to have attitude A towards things like Φ Therefore: Things like Φ are morally good.
02 February 2015 9,191 7 View
In his Treatise, Hume refers to "a progress of the sentiments" (Book III, Sec. II). As I understand this, he takes it that we may develop a bona fide commitment to justice such that it can...
01 January 2015 2,474 14 View
Schematically, we might propose it as follows: 1. An object, act, inaction, or state of affairs (X) has moral value (V) if and only if normal human beings are disposed, under the appropriate...
10 October 2014 557 8 View
Or are normativity and instrumentality separate categories – like normative and descriptive explanations are?
07 July 2014 8,107 1 View
In 1997, former chairman of the President's council on bioethics, advanced the idea that “in crucial cases…repugnance is the emotional expression of deep wisdom, beyond reason’s power to fully...
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