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Confusion of Tongues: A Theory of Normative Language, by Stephen Finlay (review)Ethics 127 (1): 281-288. 2016.Stephen Finlay’s Confusion of Tongues is a bold and sophisticated book. The overarching goal is metaphysical: to reductively analyze normative facts, properties, and relations in terms of non-normative facts, properties, and relations. But the method is linguistic: to first provide a reductive analysis of the corresponding bits of normative language, with a particular focus on ‘good’, ‘ought’, and ‘reason’. The gap between language and reality is then bridged by taking linguistic analysis as a g…Read more
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Judgment Internalism: An Argument from Self-KnowledgeEthical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (3): 489-503. 2018.Judgment internalism about evaluative judgments is the view that there is a necessary internal connection between evaluative judgments and motivation understood as desires. The debate about judgment internalism has reached a standoff some time ago. In this paper, I outline a new argument for judgment internalism. This argument does not rely on intuitions about cases, but rather it has the form of an inference to the best explanation. I argue that the best philosophical explanations of how we kno…Read more
New York University
PhD, 2017
Areas of Specialization
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Moral Psychology |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Metaphilosophy |
Biomedical Ethics |