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- Title
Intuitionism and Nihilism.
- Authors
Kaspar, David
- Abstract
Intuitionism and nihilism, according to nihilists, have key features in common: the same semantics and the same phenomenology. Intuitionism is the object of nihilism’s attack. The central charge nihilism lodges against intuitionism is that its nonnatural moral properties are queer. Here I’ll examine what ‘queer’ might mean in relation to the doctrines nihilism uses to support this charge. My investigation reveals that nihilism’s queerness charge lacks substance and resembles a tautology served with a frown. There’s really nothing to it. After I show that, I’ll offer an explanation for why nihilism has gotten intuitionism wrong. It makes a central mistaken methodological assumption and doesn’t target any identifiable intuitionism in the last hundred or so years.
- Subjects
ETHICAL intuitionism; NIHILISM (Philosophy); PHENOMENOLOGY; SEMANTICS (Philosophy); LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Philosophia, 2018, Vol 46, Issue 2, p319
- ISSN
0048-3893
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11406-017-9930-0