Search for dissertations about: "moral disagreement"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words moral disagreement.
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1. 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
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2. Moral Disagreement and the Significance of Higher-Order Evidence
Abstract : Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the philosophy of disagreement, especially in epistemology where there is an intense debate over the epistemic significance of disagreement and higher-order evidence more generally. Considerations about disagreement also play an important role in metaethics – most prominently in various arguments that purport to establish moral skepticism. READ MORE
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3. Communities of Judgment : Towards a Teleosemantic Theory of Moral Thought and Discourse
Abstract : This thesis offers a teleosemantic account of moral discourse and judgment. It develops a number of views about the function and content of moral judgments and the nature of moral discourse based on Ruth Millikan’s theory of intentional content and the functions of intentional attitudes. READ MORE
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4. The Duality of Moral Language : On Hybrid Theories in Metaethics
Abstract : Moral language displays a characteristic duality. On the one hand, moral claims seem to be similar to descriptive claims: To say that an act is right (or wrong) seems to be a matter of making an assertion, thus indicating that the speaker has a moral belief about which she can be correct or mistaken. READ MORE
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5. Guiding Concepts : Essays on Normative Concepts, Knowledge, and Deliberation
Abstract : This thesis addresses a range of questions about normativity, broadly understood. Recurring themes include (i) the idea of normative ‘action-guidance’, and the connection between normativity and motivational states, (ii) the possibility of normative knowledge and its role in deliberation, and (iii) the question of whether (and if so, how) normative concepts can themselves be evaluated. READ MORE