Original scientific paper
Between Non-Cognitivism and Realism in Ethics: A Three-Fold Model
Olga Ramírez Calle
orcid.org/0000-0001-5879-2504
; University of Saint Louis, Campus Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to propose an alternative model to realist and non-cognitive explanations of the rule-guided use of thick ethical concepts and to examine the implications that may be drawn from this and similar cases for our general understanding of rule-following and the relation between criteria of application, truth and correctness. It addresses McDowell’s non-cognitivism critique and challenges his defence of the entanglement thesis for thick ethical concepts. Contrary to non-cognitivists, however, I propose to view the relation between the two terms of the entanglement as resulting from the satisfaction of a previously applied moral function. This is what I call a “Three-Fold Model”.
Keywords
Disentanglement; ethics; McDowell; rule-following; three-fold model
Hrčak ID:
68319
URI
Publication date:
30.5.2011.
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