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Scorzo, Greg (2011) The meta-ethics of normative ethics. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.

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Abstract

This thesis is an attempt to answer the following question:

Do our moral commitments commit us to constraints on what meta-ethical theories we find attractive?

In order to answer this question, I first demonstrate that meta-ethical theories can be criticised on moral grounds. I then argue that correctness conditions for moral claims imply the thesis of explanatory moral realism. I do not claim that this is an argument for the truth of explanatory moral realism. Rather, I claim that this is an argument that moral realism is a moral commitment. I then look at two objections to the claim that moral claims can have built in commitments to a meta-ethical theory that takes a stand on the issue of moral realism. The first of these is a set of arguments that Simon Blackburn gives for quasi-realism. The second objection is a set of arguments given by Ronald Dworkin that attack the presuppositions of debates about realism in meta-ethics.

Item Type:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only) (PhD)
Supervisors:	Fisher, A.D. Sinclair, N.
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BJ Ethics
Faculties/Schools:	UK Campuses > Faculty of Arts > School of Humanities
Item ID:	12091
Depositing User:	EP, Services
Date Deposited:	17 Oct 2012 13:41
Last Modified:	15 Dec 2017 05:42
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/12091

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