PHIL 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ethical Naturalism, Ethical Intuitionism, Supervenience
23 Oct 2017
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Normative ethics- determines what an agent should or should not do, typically via some principle or procedures. Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself. thics. Metaethics- investigates the appropriate presuppositions of moral thought, talk and actions. Natural: the things that gure in natural explanations or the things that the natural sciences study. Non-natural: things that do not get explained by natural sciences. Ex: numbers, abstract objects, (perhaps) value or normative properties. To describe a metaphysical theory or a kind of psychological attitude: Cognitive: if an attiide pr judgement is cognitive, it means that it can be true or false. (ex. If a theory if cognitivist, then it all depends on attitude/judgement that can be true or false. Non-cognitive: an attitude is non cognitive if it cannot be true or false. (ex. If ethical judgement expresses these kinds of attiude, then it is non-cognitivst. About properties of objects, states of affairs, circumstances, etc:
