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217Conservative speechRatio 33 (4): 243-254. 2020.In this paper, I argue that an utterance can function to conserve or maintain the truth of its asserted content, what I call conservative speech. Conservative utterances can work to preserve the truth of their asserted content in two ways. In the first, directive conservatives, the utterance serves as an indirect directive for interlocutors to act in ways that serve to maintain the asserted content. In the second, constitutive conservatives, serve to partly constitute the truth conditions of …Read more
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629Functional Constitutivism’s Misunderstood Resources: A Limited Defense of Smith’s ConstitutivismEthics 130 (1): 79-91. 2019.In recent work, Michael Smith argues that particular desires are constitutive of ideal agency and draws on his dispositional account of reasons to establish the normative significance of those desires. In a sustained critique, Michael Bukowski objects that Smith’s recent arguments that particular desires are constitutive of ideal agency rely on indefensible premises and his dispositional account of reasons is unable to establish the normative significance of such desires. On the contrary, I argu…Read more
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300Legal Metanormativity: Lessons for and from Constitutivist Accounts in the Philosophy of LawIn Toh Kevin, Plunkett David & Shapiro Scott (eds.), Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence, Oxford University Press. pp. 87-104. 2019.
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538Constitutivism without Normative ThresholdsJournal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 3 (XII): 231-258. 2017.Constitutivist accounts in metaethics explain the normative standards in a domain by appealing to the constitutive features of its members. The success of these accounts turns on whether they can explain the connection between normative standards and the nature of individuals they authoritatively govern. Many such explanations presuppose that any member of a norm-governed kind must minimally satisfy the norms governing its kind. I call this the Threshold Commitment, and argue that constitutivist…Read more
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28Bagnoli, Carla, ed. Constructivism in Ethics.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 258. $95.00 (review)Ethics 125 (3): 857-861. 2015.
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Moral Normativity |
Normativity of Law |
Epistemic Normativity |
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