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What do you mean “This isn’t the question”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

David Enoch  and
Tristram McPherson
David Enoch*
Affiliation:
Philosophy Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Tristram McPherson
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
*
Corresponding author. Email: david.enoch@mail.huji.ac.il
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Abstract

This is a contribution to the symposium on Tim Scanlon’s Being Realistic about Reasons (2014). We have two aims here: First, we ask for more details about Scanlon’s meta-metaphysical view (about his notion of a domain, his criterion of existence, his ambition to remain ontologically thin, and on the role of pragmatic considerations in Scanlon’s picture), showing problems with salient clarifications. And second, we raise independent objections to the view – to its explanatory productivity, its distinctness, and the argumentative support it enjoys.

Keywords

Scanlonmoral realismmeta-ethicsnormativityquietismmeta-metaphysicsontological commitment

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Tim Scanlon's Being Realistic about Reasons; author meets critics
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy , Volume 47 , Issue 6 , 2017 , pp. 820 - 840
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Copyright © Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2017

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