Brogaard's Moral Contextualism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4938905 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lars Binderup (0000-0003-0939-9401, University of Southern Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 232 |
| Pages | 410-415 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.544.x |
| OpenAlex | W2027677291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Brogaard's non-indexical version of moral contextualism has two related problems. It is unable to account for the function of truth-governed assertoric moral discourse, since it leaves two (semantically clearheaded) disputants without any incentive to resolve seemingly contradictory moral claims. The moral contextualist could explain why people do feel such an incentive by ascribing false beliefs about the semantic workings of their own language. But, secondly, this leaves Brogaard's moral contextualism looking weaker than a Mackie-style invariantist error theory about morals. The latter is equally non-objectivist, but less revisionist, since it takes the semantics of moral discourse at face value, and can also explain all of Brogaard's other linguistic evidence. Udgivelsesdato: July 2008
Contextualism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Moral philosophy · Sociology · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Ethics in medical practice · Philosophy · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |