Essays about: "Metaethics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word Metaethics.

  1. 1. History, Progress, Morality : An Inquiry on the Metaethics of Moral Progress

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

    Author : Jacob Gustavsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Philosophy; Moral Progress; Metaethics; Moral Relativism; Moral Realism; Moral Convictions; Moral Skepticism;

    Abstract : In this essay, I examine the interplay between history, progress, and morality, as it is discussed explicitly or implicitly in the metaethical literature. At first sight, it is perhaps intuitive that these three are necessarily intertwined and mutually dependent, as if they were casually connected. READ MORE

  3. 2. Problems for Michael Gill’s semantic pluralism : The ostensibility of certain moral agreements and disagreements

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionen

    Author : Simon Engström; [2020]
    Keywords : Semantic pluralism; meta-ethics; metaethics; semantics; cognitivism; non-cognitivism; Michael Gill; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; moral disagreement; ostensibility; Semantisk pluralism; meta-etik; metaetik; semantik; kognitivism; icke-kognitivism; Michael Gill; Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; moralisk oenighet; skenbarhet;

    Abstract : This paper concerns the semantic branch of meta-ethics, and examines a version of so called semantic pluralism advocated by Michael Gill. Briefly put, Gill suggests that ordinary people’s usage of moral terms is rather messy in the sense that the meaning of moral terms can vary not only between different people, but also for one and the same person in different contexts. READ MORE

  4. 3. Justification and Moral Cognitivism : An Analysis of Jürgen Habermas's Metaethics

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Elfström; [2018]
    Keywords : Habermas; cognitivism; metaethics; justification; human rights; Habermas; kognitivism; metaetik; etisk teori; berättigande; mänskliga rättigheter;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I scrutinise and interpret Jürgen Habermas’s claim that justification of moral norms necessitates cognitivism. I do this by analysing the general idea behind his discourse theory of morality and then his metaethics. READ MORE

  5. 4. Undermining Derk Pereboom’s Hard Incompatibilist Position Against Agent-causation : A Metatheoretical Work on the Topic of Metaphysics and Metaethics

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation; Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Björn Lundgren; [2013]
    Keywords : hard incompatibilism; agent-causation; metaethics; free will; Derk Pereboom; metaphysics; physics; probability; modality; quantum physics; Wigner’s friend; hård inkompatiblism; agentkausalitet; metaetik; fri vilja; Derk Pereboom; metafysik; fysik; sannolikhet; modalitet; kvantfysik; Wigners vän;

    Abstract : The author has attempted a dubbleedged purpose, as indicated by the title. The author firstly deals with Pereboom; begining with his so-called ‘wild coincidence’-argument, by which Pereboom claims agent-causation to be unlikely. The author argues that this argument lacks both scope and strenght. READ MORE

  6. 5. Ethics Naturalized : Naturalism as Explanatory Structure in Metaethics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Jerker Karlsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Ethics; Evolution; Emotivism; Metaethics; Naturalism; Moral Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to investigate what implications a naturalized account of metaethics could have for our understanding of ethics and to advance a type of ethical naturalism that is non-reductionist. During the course of the study several different approaches to metaethics are investigated and critically evaluated, before a positive account of ethical naturalism is delivered. READ MORE