Subjectivism and the Framework of Constitutive Grounds
(2018) In Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 21(1). p.155-167- Abstract
Philosophers have applied the framework of constitutive grounds to make sense of the disagreement between subjectivism and objectivism. The framework understands the two theories as being involved in a disagreement about the extent to which value is determined by attitudes. Although the framework affords us with some useful observations about how this should be interpreted, the question how value can be determined by attitudes in the first place is left largely unanswered. Here we explore the benefits of a positive interpretation which aims to address this oversight and make the framework more informative. This interpretation, which is inspired by the recent work of Schroeder (2007) and Sobel (2016), claims that the relevant sense in... (More)
Philosophers have applied the framework of constitutive grounds to make sense of the disagreement between subjectivism and objectivism. The framework understands the two theories as being involved in a disagreement about the extent to which value is determined by attitudes. Although the framework affords us with some useful observations about how this should be interpreted, the question how value can be determined by attitudes in the first place is left largely unanswered. Here we explore the benefits of a positive interpretation which aims to address this oversight and make the framework more informative. This interpretation, which is inspired by the recent work of Schroeder (2007) and Sobel (2016), claims that the relevant sense in which value can be determined by attitudes is discovered by seeing how facts can be endowed with the normative property of being a reason. We argue that this interpretation significantly deepens our understanding of the disagreement between subjectivism and objectivism.
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- Garcia, Andrés G. LU and Green Werkmäster, Jakob LU
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- 2018-02-01
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- Constitution, Constitutive grounds, Grounding, Objectivism, Reasons, Subjectivism, Value
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- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
- volume
- 21
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 13 pages
- publisher
- Springer
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- scopus:85041562786
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- 1386-2820
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- 10.1007/s10677-018-9862-1
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- English
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- yes
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