The Explanatory Ambitions of Moral Principles
Moral properties are explained by other properties. And moral principles tell us about moral properties. How are these two ideas related? In particular, is the truth of a given moral principle part of what explains why a given action has a given moral property? I argue “No.” If moral principles are...
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2019
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