What moral realism can learn from the philosophy of time
In Heather Dyke (ed.), Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection. Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003)
| Abstract | It sometimes happens that advances in one area of philosophy can be applied to a quite different area of philosophy, and that the result is an unexpected significant advance. I think that this is true of the philosophy of time and meta-ethics. Developments in the philosophy of time have led to a new understanding of the relation between semantics and metaphysics. Applying these insights to the field of meta-ethics, I will argue, can suggest a new position with respect to moral discourse and moral reality. This new position retains the advantages of theories like moral realism and naturalism, yet is immune to many of their difficulties. | |||||||||
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