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32 relations: Akeel Bilgrami, Amorality, Anti-social behaviour, Argument, Christine Korsgaard, Contemporary philosophy, Definite description, Egoist anarchism, Eliminative materialism, Ethical naturalism, Ethical subjectivism, Evolution of morality, Existential nihilism, Expressivism, Illegalism, J. L. Mackie, Meta-ethics, Might makes right, Moral realism, Moral relativism, Moral skepticism, Moral universalism, Naturalism (philosophy), Non-cognitivism, Observable, Perspectivism, Prima facie, Psychological determinism, Reductio ad absurdum, Reductionism, Richard Joyce (philosopher), Science of morality.
Akeel Bilgrami
Akeel Bilgrami (born 1950) is an Indian-origin philosopher of language and of mind, and the author of Belief and Meaning, Self-Knowledge and Resentment, and Politics and the Moral Psychology of Identity (forthcoming), as well as various articles in Philosophy of Mind as well as in Political and Moral Psychology.
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Amorality
Amorality is an absence of, indifference towards, or disregard for morality.
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Anti-social behaviour
Anti-social behaviours are actions that harm or lack consideration for the well-being of others.
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Argument
In logic and philosophy, an argument is a series of statements typically used to persuade someone of something or to present reasons for accepting a conclusion.
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Christine Korsgaard
Christine Marion Korsgaard FBA (born April 9, 1952) is an American philosopher and Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University whose main scholarly interests are in moral philosophy and its history; the relation of issues in moral philosophy to issues in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the theory of personal identity; the theory of personal relationships; and in normativity in general.
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Contemporary philosophy
Contemporary philosophy is the present period in the history of Western philosophy beginning at the end of the 19th century with the professionalization of the discipline and the rise of analytic and continental philosophy.
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Definite description
A definite description is a denoting phrase in the form of "the X" where X is a noun-phrase or a singular common noun.
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Egoist anarchism
Egoist anarchism is a school of anarchist thought that originated in the philosophy of Max Stirner, a 19th century existentialist philosopher whose "name appears with familiar regularity in historically orientated surveys of anarchist thought as one of the earliest and best known exponents of individualist anarchism".
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Eliminative materialism
Eliminative materialism (also called eliminativism) is the claim that people's common-sense understanding of the mind (or folk psychology) is false and that certain classes of mental states that most people believe in do not exist.
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Ethical naturalism
Ethical naturalism (also called moral naturalism or naturalistic cognitivistic definism) is the meta-ethical view which claims that: Reductive naturalism.
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Ethical subjectivism
Ethical subjectivism is the meta-ethical view which claims that.
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Evolution of morality
The evolution of morality refers to the emergence of human moral behavior over the course of human evolution.
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Existential nihilism
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no intrinsic meaning or value.
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Expressivism
Expressivism in meta-ethics is a theory about the meaning of moral language.
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Illegalism
Illegalism is an anarchist philosophy that developed primarily in France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland during the early 1900s as an outgrowth of individualist anarchism.
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J. L. Mackie
John Leslie Mackie (25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher, originally from Sydney.
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Meta-ethics
Meta-ethics is the branch of ethics that seeks to understand the nature of ethical properties, statements, attitudes, and judgments.
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Might makes right
Might makes right is an aphorism with several potential meanings (in order of increasing complexity).
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Moral realism
Moral realism (also ethical realism or moral Platonism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is, features independent of subjective opinion), some of which may be true to the extent that they report those features accurately.
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Moral relativism
Moral relativism may be any of several philosophical positions concerned with the differences in moral judgments across different people and cultures.
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Moral skepticism
Moral skepticism (or moral scepticism) is a class of metaethical theories all members of which entail that no one has any moral knowledge.
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Moral universalism
Moral universalism (also called moral objectivism or universal morality) is the meta-ethical position that some system of ethics, or a universal ethic, applies universally, that is, for "all similarly situated individuals", regardless of culture, race, sex, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, or any other distinguishing feature.
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Naturalism (philosophy)
In philosophy, naturalism is the "idea or belief that only natural (as opposed to supernatural or spiritual) laws and forces operate in the world." Adherents of naturalism (i.e., naturalists) assert that natural laws are the rules that govern the structure and behavior of the natural universe, that the changing universe at every stage is a product of these laws.
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Non-cognitivism
Non-cognitivism is the meta-ethical view that ethical sentences do not express propositions (i.e., statements) and thus cannot be true or false (they are not truth-apt).
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Observable
In physics, an observable is a dynamic variable that can be measured.
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Perspectivism
Perspectivism (Perspektivismus) is the philosophical view (touched upon as far back as Plato's rendition of Protagoras) that all ideations take place from particular perspectives, and that there are many possible conceptual schemes, or perspectives in which judgment of truth or value can be made.
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Prima facie
Prima facie is a Latin expression meaning on its first encounter or at first sight.
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Psychological determinism
Daniel Bader discusses two forms of psychological determinism.
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Reductio ad absurdum
In logic, reductio ad absurdum ("reduction to absurdity"; also argumentum ad absurdum, "argument to absurdity") is a form of argument which attempts either to disprove a statement by showing it inevitably leads to a ridiculous, absurd, or impractical conclusion, or to prove one by showing that if it were not true, the result would be absurd or impossible.
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Reductionism
Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena.
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Richard Joyce (philosopher)
Richard Joyce (born 1966) is a British-Australian-New Zealand philosopher, known for his contributions to the fields of meta-ethics and moral psychology.
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Science of morality
The science of morality may refer to various forms of ethical naturalism grounding morality in rational, empirical consideration of the natural world.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_nihilism
