Add to ORKGMoral metasemantic theories explain how our moral thought and talk are about certain properties. Given the connection between what our moral terms are about and which moral claims are true, it might be thought that metasemantic theorising can justify first-order ethical conclusions, thus providing a novel way of doing moral epistemology. In this paper, we spell out one kind of argument from metasemantic theories to normative ethical conclusions, and argue that it fails to transmit justification from premises to conclusion. We give three reasons for this transmission failure, which together pose a serious challenge to such metasemantic arguments
In this brief paper, I present some basic arguments for why insights in moral psychology, especially...
Moral error theory, the view that moral discourse is factually defective, is an influential view in ...
There are several important arguments in metaethics that rely on explanatory considerations. Gilbert...
Moral metasemantic theories explain how our moral thought and talk are about certain properties. Giv...
Non-naturalism is the view that normative properties are response-independent, irreducible to natura...
In this paper, I consider the relationship between Matthew Kramer’s moral realism as a moral doctrin...
This paper outlines a new metasemantic theory of moral reason statements, focused on explaining how ...
One of the core questions in contemporary metaethics concerns the nature and status of moral claims....
Moral philosophy has become interested again in particular, substantive questions of right and wrong...
This paper applies the theory of teleosemantics to the issue of moral content. Two versions of teleo...
This thesis is an attempt to answer the following question: Do our moral commitments commit us to ...
Epistemology, like ethics, is normative. Just as ethics addresses questions about how we ought to ac...
This is a book on metaethics and moral epistemology. It asks two fundamental questions: (i) Is there...
Some philosophers have been attracted to the idea that morality is an autonomous domain. One versio...
In this brief paper, I present some basic arguments for why insights in moral psychology, especially...
Moral error theory, the view that moral discourse is factually defective, is an influential view in ...
There are several important arguments in metaethics that rely on explanatory considerations. Gilbert...
Moral metasemantic theories explain how our moral thought and talk are about certain properties. Giv...
Non-naturalism is the view that normative properties are response-independent, irreducible to natura...
In this paper, I consider the relationship between Matthew Kramer’s moral realism as a moral doctrin...
This paper outlines a new metasemantic theory of moral reason statements, focused on explaining how ...
One of the core questions in contemporary metaethics concerns the nature and status of moral claims....
Moral philosophy has become interested again in particular, substantive questions of right and wrong...
This paper applies the theory of teleosemantics to the issue of moral content. Two versions of teleo...
This thesis is an attempt to answer the following question: Do our moral commitments commit us to ...
Epistemology, like ethics, is normative. Just as ethics addresses questions about how we ought to ac...
This is a book on metaethics and moral epistemology. It asks two fundamental questions: (i) Is there...
Some philosophers have been attracted to the idea that morality is an autonomous domain. One versio...
In this brief paper, I present some basic arguments for why insights in moral psychology, especially...
Moral error theory, the view that moral discourse is factually defective, is an influential view in ...
There are several important arguments in metaethics that rely on explanatory considerations. Gilbert...