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443Metaethical Minimalism: A Demarcation, Defense, and DevelopmentDissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz. 2020.The aim of this work is to demarcate, develop, and defend the commitments and consequences of metaethical minimalism. Very roughly, this is the position that a commitment to objective moral truths does not require any accompanying ontological commitments. While there are few, if any, who call themselves “metaethical minimalists”, I endeavor to uncover existing articulations of metaethical minimalism which have been presented under different names, attempting to identify the common ground between…Read more
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284Broadly construed, moral sentimentalism is the position that human emotions or sentiments play a crucial role in our best normative or descriptive accounts of moral value or judgments thereof. In this paper, I introduce and sketch a defense of a new form of moral sentimentalism I call “Transcendental Sentimentalism”. According to transcendental sentimentalism, having a sentimental response to an object is a necessary condition of the possibility of a subject counting as having non-inferential ev…Read more
University of California, Santa Cruz
PhD, 2020
Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |