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▼a Zhao, Michael. |
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▼a Altering Morality: An Essay in Revisionary Non-cognitivism. |
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▼a [S.l.] :
▼b New York University.,
▼c 2018 |
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▼a Ann Arbor :
▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
▼c 2018 |
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▼a 145 p. |
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▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A. |
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▼a Adviser: Samuel Scheffler. |
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▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2018. |
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▼a Some moral philosophers have a vague suspicion that non-cognitivism, the idea that moral claims express attitudes like emotions or desires, threatens the significance of morality. If "murder is wrong" just expresses the speaker's subjective atti |
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▼a At the same time, it remains a widespread belief in meta-ethics that non-cognitivism, as a descriptive thesis, has no normative implications. Almost 300 years ago, David Hume asserted that the discovery that values "are not qualities in objects, |
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▼a Despite the arguments of the quasi-realists and other meta-ethicists, I remain unconvinced. In my dissertation, Altering Morality: An Essay in Revisionary Non-Cognitivism, I argue that if non-cognitivism is true, then we need to rethink in many |
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▼a Although its focus is on a meta-ethical view, I take the main significance of the dissertation to be its moral dimension. In particular, it shows that non-cognitivism undermines two widespread conceptions of morality. First, one might have thoug |
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▼a This project has interest for cognitivists and non-cognitivists alike. If you are a cognitivist, then you might welcome the fact that non-cognitivism has these conclusions, as they show that cognitivism is in a better position to accommodate cer |
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▼a School code: 0146. |
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▼a Ethics. |
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▼a New York University.
▼b Philosophy. |
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▼t Dissertation Abstracts International
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▼t Dissertation Abstract International |
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▼a Ph.D. |
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▼a 2018 |
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▼a English |
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▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T14997088
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