Add to ORKGMany philosophers have suggested that claims of need play a special normative role in ethical thought and talk. But what do such claims mean? What does this special role amount to? Progress on these questions can be made by attending to a puzzle concerning some linguistic differences between two types of 'need' sentence: one where 'need' occurs as a verb, and where it occurs as a noun. I argue that the resources developed to solve the puzzle advance our understanding of the metaphysics of need, the meaning of 'need' sentences, and the function of claims of need in ethical discourse
ABSTRACT: Some intuitive normative principles raise vexing „detaching problems ‟ by their failure to...
textabstractThe concepts of need and needs are pervasive in everyday discourse, public policy, espec...
Metaphysical necessity is one of contemporary philosophy’s widely-used tools for theorising. Since t...
Many philosophers have suggested that claims of need play a special normative role in ethical though...
Claims about needs are a ubiquitous feature of everyday practical discourse. It is therefore unsurpr...
Need is a concept that carries intuitive appeal in moral decision-making. As it stands, need is rel...
This work attempts to show that moral goodness is of the same kind as other forms of goodness, and t...
The concept of need is commonly overlooked by philosophers and social scientists. Often considered e...
People 'need' things if they will suffer negative effects without them. Needs are based in problems,...
David Braybrooke argues that meeting people’s needs ought to be the primary goal of social...
Much ordinary discourse about political and moral matters invokes the language of needs. In such co...
In ordinary discourse the terms 'need' and 'want' are often interchanged and it is therefore necessa...
In Necessary Beings, Bob Hale addresses two questions: What is the source of necessity? What is the ...
Instrumentalists about need believe that all needs are instrumental, i.e., ontologically dependent u...
Some truths could not have failed to hold. Such are called metaphysically necessary truths. As Micha...
ABSTRACT: Some intuitive normative principles raise vexing „detaching problems ‟ by their failure to...
textabstractThe concepts of need and needs are pervasive in everyday discourse, public policy, espec...
Metaphysical necessity is one of contemporary philosophy’s widely-used tools for theorising. Since t...
Many philosophers have suggested that claims of need play a special normative role in ethical though...
Claims about needs are a ubiquitous feature of everyday practical discourse. It is therefore unsurpr...
Need is a concept that carries intuitive appeal in moral decision-making. As it stands, need is rel...
This work attempts to show that moral goodness is of the same kind as other forms of goodness, and t...
The concept of need is commonly overlooked by philosophers and social scientists. Often considered e...
People 'need' things if they will suffer negative effects without them. Needs are based in problems,...
David Braybrooke argues that meeting people’s needs ought to be the primary goal of social...
Much ordinary discourse about political and moral matters invokes the language of needs. In such co...
In ordinary discourse the terms 'need' and 'want' are often interchanged and it is therefore necessa...
In Necessary Beings, Bob Hale addresses two questions: What is the source of necessity? What is the ...
Instrumentalists about need believe that all needs are instrumental, i.e., ontologically dependent u...
Some truths could not have failed to hold. Such are called metaphysically necessary truths. As Micha...
ABSTRACT: Some intuitive normative principles raise vexing „detaching problems ‟ by their failure to...
textabstractThe concepts of need and needs are pervasive in everyday discourse, public policy, espec...
Metaphysical necessity is one of contemporary philosophy’s widely-used tools for theorising. Since t...