Options
Teorie e storia della sopravvenienza: da Hare alla svolta degli anni Novanta
Pellegrino, Gianfranco
2005
Abstract
At least in the past fifty years, supervenience has been an ubiquitous philosophical concept – employed from metaphysics to ethics. The paper focuses on uses of supervenience in the field of ethics. After a brief survey of the classical debate between realists and anti-realists on supervenience (main participants: Hare, Blackburn, Brink and Railton), an account of the view of language involved in supervenience is presented. Relying on such an account, a turning point is placed in the Nineties, when supervenience was either weakened (in authors like Frank Jackson and Russ Shafer-Landau) or definitely discarded (by J. Dancy and J. Griffin). Both moves lead to a new face taken by normative theory, which ceases to revolve around universal principles – or at least it ceases to build universal principles in the traditional way, by generalizing on similar cases.
Series
Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics
VII (2005) 1
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Gianfranco Pellegrino, "Teorie e storia della sopravvenienza: da Hare alla svolta degli anni Novanta", in: Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics, VII (2005) 1, pp. 1-36.
Languages
it
File(s)