Search for dissertations about: "argument from queerness"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words argument from queerness.
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1. The Queerness of Objective Values : An Essay on Mackiean Metaethics and the Arguments from Queerness
Abstract : This book investigates the argument from queerness against moral realism, famously put forward by J. L. Mackie in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977). The book can be divided into two parts. READ MORE
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2. Moral Reality. A Defence of Moral Realism
Abstract : 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). READ MORE