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Sensitive Moral Semantics: Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism and Context Shifting Arguments
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Uploaded for the 2021 Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association
Abstract: In this paper, I bring context shifting arguments from philosophy of language to bear on a set of generics that are held by Neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism to play an important role in moral judgments: vital descriptions about humans. I argue that though there may exist reasons to doubt the force of such arguments in language generally, the counter-argument against them based on what Cappelen and Lepore call a ‘mistaken assumption’ do not apply to these generics because of the constitutive relationship between the context and their subject matter.
Subdiscipline: Metaethics
Abstract: In this paper, I bring context shifting arguments from philosophy of language to bear on a set of generics that are held by Neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism to play an important role in moral judgments: vital descriptions about humans. I argue that though there may exist reasons to doubt the force of such arguments in language generally, the counter-argument against them based on what Cappelen and Lepore call a ‘mistaken assumption’ do not apply to these generics because of the constitutive relationship between the context and their subject matter.
Subdiscipline: Metaethics
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