Ethical Naturalism and the Justification of Claims about Human Form
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9687373 |
|---|---|
| Authors | JESSY JORDAN (0000-0002-1902-8463, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 467-492 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217316000615 |
| OpenAlex | W2540026920 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Recent defenders of Philippa Foot, such as Michael Thompson and John Hacker-Wright, have argued that it is a mistake to think that Foot aims to justify a substantive conception of human soundness and defect. Instead, she relies on the acceptance of certain groundless moral norms to underwrite her views about what is characteristically human. I maintain that this is a weakness and that the Footian-style proponent of natural normativity needs to provide a story about how we might achieve justified self-confidence regarding moral norms. In this paper, I offer a coherentist model for doing so, thereby addressing the justification gap
Coherentism · Consequentialism · Dismissal · Epistemology · Foundationalism · Misrepresentation · Mistake · Natural (archaeology) · Naturalism · Political science · Sociology · Style (visual arts) · Wright · Free Will and Agency · History · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Three rival versions of moral enquiry
The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Getting On in a Varied World
Life and Action
Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism and the Indeterminacy Objection
Ethical Naturalism and the Constitution of Agency
Natural Goodness
Philippa Foot's Virtue Ethics Has an Achilles' Heel
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |