Realism and Fundamentality in Ethics and Elsewhere.

Realism;Metaphysical Fundamentality;Reference;Non-naturalism;Expressivism;Philosophy;Humanities;Philosophy

Dunaway III, William R.Schroeder, Mark ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Realism;    Metaphysical Fundamentality;    Reference;    Non-naturalism;    Expressivism;    Philosophy;    Humanities;    Philosophy;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

This is a dissertation about how the notion of metaphysical fundamentality can contribute to several outstanding problems in metaethics and elsewhere. It can, I argue, provide an adequate underpinning for the distinction between realist and irrealist theories, feature in a promising account of reference for realists, distinguish ordinary realist theories from quasi-realistExpressivism, and contribute to a defense of traditional non-naturalist views. By developing these fundamentality-based solutions, we also learn something about the notion of fundamentality itself; many of these solutions are most naturally implemented in a setting where fundamentality is understood as a primitive degreed notion, not susceptible to definition in other terms.