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Moral Facts, Possible Moral Worlds and Naturalized Ethics
Gbenga, Fasiku
2008
Abstract
Given his commitment to the project of naturalizing every normative aspect of philosophy;
reducing its a priori content to some sort of empirical enterprise, Quine’s inroad into moral
philosophy is expected to set the stage for the project of naturalizing ethics. However, Quine
argues that ethics is methodologically infirmed. Hence, the hope of naturalizing ethics hits
the rock. This paper aims at advancing the project of naturalizing ethics by an attempt to
settle, in a way different from the postulations of Flanagan and White, foremost
commentators on Quinean ethics, Quine’s charge of methodological infirmity.
Series
Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
X (2008) 2
Subjects
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Fasiku Gbenga, "Moral Facts, Possible Moral Worlds and Naturalized Ethics", in: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, X (2008) 2, pp. 256-273.
Languages
en
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