Seminars in Moral Philosophy Week 3 TT08
| Event Name | Seminars in Moral Philosophy Week 3 TT08 |
| Start Date | 5th May 2008 4:30pm |
| End Date | 5th May 2008 6:30pm |
| Duration | 2 hours |
| Description | Daniel Elstein (Leeds): ‘Is there a Normative Question, and if so, how can it be answered?’ to be held in the Lecture Room, 10 Merton Street, Oxford - Seminars in Moral Philosophy webpage Abstract A neglected debate in metaethics is between Kantian and Humean expressivists. Kantian expressivists like Korsgaard hold that there is a single normative question which metaethics must deal with, whereas Humeans like Blackburn hold that there are simply a slew of diverse normative questions, which are a matter for normative ethics rather than metaethics. I argue that that the counter-intuitive Kantian position can be defended by considering Copp's normative regress argument, and I try to show how to understand Kant's argument for the categorical imperative as a plausible response to this threat of normative regress. |
