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| Morals: morals refers to a more or less coded set of rules, action maxims, duties and prohibitions within a society or group. Most of these rules are unconsciously internalized among the members of the society or group. Their justification and the possible assessment of actions are reflected in ethics and meta ethics. See also values, norms, rights, ethics._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Richard Boyd on Morals - Dictionary of Arguments
Chalmers I 84 Moral/Supervenience/Boyd/Brink/Chalmers: Boyd (1988)(1) and Brink (1989)(2) Thesis: moral facts supervene on natural facts with an a posteriori need. I.e. they supervene in relation to the secondary, not the primary intension of moral concepts. (>Horgan and Timmons, 1992a(3), 1992b(4)). >Supervenience, >a posteriori necessity, cf. >Morals/Wright. 1. Boyd, R. (1988). How to be a moral realist. In: G. Sayre-McCord (ed.) Essays on Moral Realism. Ithaca, NY: Cornel University Press. 2. Brink, D. (1989). Moral Realism and the foundations of Ethics. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 3. Horgan, T. and M. Timmons (1992). Troubles for new wave moral semantics. The "Open question argument" reviewed. Philosophical Papers 4. Horgan, T. and M. Timmons (1992). Trouble on moral twin earth: Moral queerness revised. Synthese 92: 223-60._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Boyd I Richard Boyd The Philosophy of Science Cambridge 1991 Cha I D. Chalmers The Conscious Mind Oxford New York 1996 Cha II D. Chalmers Constructing the World Oxford 2014 |
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