The Mackiean Supervenience Challenge
Non-naturalists about normativity hold that there are instantiable normative properties which are metaphysically discontinuous with natural properties. One of the central challenges to non-naturalism is how to reconcile this discontinuity with the supervenience of the normative on the natural. Drawi...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2019]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2019, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 219-236 |
RelBib Classification: | NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
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Non-naturalism
B J. L. Mackie B Supervenience challenge B Normative explanation B Tristram McPherson |
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Summary: | Non-naturalists about normativity hold that there are instantiable normative properties which are metaphysically discontinuous with natural properties. One of the central challenges to non-naturalism is how to reconcile this discontinuity with the supervenience of the normative on the natural. Drawing on J. L. Mackie's seminal but highly compressed discussion in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977), this paper argues that the supervenience challenge as usually conceived is merely a symptom of a more fundamental challenge in the vicinity. |
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ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-019-09987-5 |