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- Title
METAPHYSICAL NATURALISM AND SOME MORAL REALISMS.
- Authors
Jordan, Matthew Carey
- Abstract
I argue that morality as such is characterized by a number of distinctive features, and that metaphysical naturalists should believe that there are moral facts only if there is a plausible naturalistic explanation of the existence of facts which exemplify those features. I survey three prominent (and very different) naturalistic moral theories-the reductive naturalism of Peter Railton, Frank Jackson's analytic descriptivism, and Christine Korsgaard's Kantianism-and argue that none of them has the resources to explain the existence of genuine moral facts.
- Subjects
MORAL realism; METAPHYSICS; NATURALISM; PROPOSITION (Logic); SUBJECTIVITY; OBJECTIVITY; JACKSON, Frank, 1943-
- Publication
Philo, 2011, Vol 14, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
1098-3570
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5840/philo20111411