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Moberger, V. (2022). Non-Naturalism and Reasons-Firstism: How to Solve the Discontinuity Problem by Reducing Two Queerness Worries to One. Journal of Ethics, 26(1), 131-154
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Non-Naturalism and Reasons-Firstism: How to Solve the Discontinuity Problem by Reducing Two Queerness Worries to One
2022 (English)In: Journal of Ethics, ISSN 1382-4554, E-ISSN 1572-8609, Vol. 26, no 1, p. 131-154Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A core tenet of metanormative non-naturalism is that genuine or robust normativity—i.e., the kind of normativity that is characteristic of moral requirements, and perhaps also of prudential, epistemic and even aesthetic requirements—is metaphysically special in a way that rules out naturalist analyses or reductions; on the non-naturalist view, the normative is sui generis and metaphysically discontinuous with the natural (or descriptive or non-normative). Non-naturalists agree, however, that the normative is modally as well as explanatorily dependent on the natural. These two commitments—discontinuity and dependence—at least initially pull in opposite directions, and one of the central challenges to non-naturalism is how to reconcile them. In this paper I spell out the most pressing version of this discontinuity problem, as I propose to call it, and I go on to offer a novel solution. Drawing on the ideology of reasons-firstism, I formulate an account of normative explanation which reconciles the two commitments, and I argue that competing accounts either do not solve the problem or are implausible on independent grounds.

Keywords
Non-naturalism, Discontinuity problem, Normative explanation, Reasons-firstism
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-197175 (URN)10.1007/s10892-021-09382-2 (DOI)000702499600001 ()2-s2.0-85115604053 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2019-02828
Available from: 2021-09-28 Created: 2021-09-28 Last updated: 2023-11-23Bibliographically approved
Moberger, V. (2022). Objektiva sanningar. Filosofisk Tidskrift, 43(1), 24-41
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Objektiva sanningar
2022 (Swedish)In: Filosofisk Tidskrift, ISSN 0348-7482, Vol. 43, no 1, p. 24-41Article in journal (Other academic) Published
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-201980 (URN)
Available from: 2022-02-09 Created: 2022-02-09 Last updated: 2022-05-31Bibliographically approved
Moberger, V. (2022). The Truth about Objective Truths. Free Inquiry, 42(6), 50-52
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Truth about Objective Truths
2022 (English)In: Free Inquiry, ISSN 0272-0701, Vol. 42, no 6, p. 50-52Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-210558 (URN)
Available from: 2022-10-21 Created: 2022-10-21 Last updated: 2022-10-24Bibliographically approved
Franzén, N., Moberger, V. & Risberg, O. (2021). Grundbok i metaetik. Lund: Studentlitteratur AB
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Grundbok i metaetik
2021 (Swedish)Book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Abstract [sv]

Metaetiken behandlar filosofiska frågor om hur moraliska påståenden, moraliska uppfattningar, moraliska fakta och moralisk kunskap är beskaffade – liksom frågan om sådana fakta och sådan kunskap överhuvudtaget finns. I centrum för denna introduktionsbok står frågan om moralen är objektiv – hur ska denna fråga förstås och hur kan olika svar på den försvaras? I relation till denna fråga diskuteras en rad besläktade ämnen, bland annat gällande moralisk oenighet, förhållandet mellan moral och vetenskap och frågan om moraliska övertygelser kan vara mer eller mindre rationella. Grundbok i metaetik är avsedd att användas vid universitetskurser i metaetik och relaterade ämnen. Framställningen kräver dock inga särskilda filosofiska förkunskaper, och boken kan därmed läsas av alla som är intresserade av ämnet.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB, 2021. p. 299
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-195146 (URN)9789144140131 (ISBN)
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2019-02828Swedish Research Council, 2019-02905Swedish Research Council, 2020-01955Åke Wiberg Foundation
Available from: 2021-08-09 Created: 2021-08-09 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved
Moberger, V. (2021). Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking. Psyche
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking
2021 (English)In: PsycheArticle in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
National Category
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-190190 (URN)
Note

Psyche is a new digital magazine from Aeon that launched in May 2020. Psyche seeks to illuminate the human condition through psychological knowhow, philosophical understanding and artistic insight. 

Available from: 2021-02-10 Created: 2021-02-10 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved
Moberger, V. (2020). Bullshit, Pseudoscience and Pseudophilosophy. Theoria, 86, 595-611
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Bullshit, Pseudoscience and Pseudophilosophy
2020 (English)In: Theoria, ISSN 0040-5825, E-ISSN 1755-2567, Vol. 86, p. 595-611Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In this article I give a unified account of three phenomena: bullshit, pseudoscience and pseudophilosophy. My aims are partly conceptual, partly evaluative. Drawing on Harry Frankfurt's seminal analysis of bullshit, I give an account of the three phenomena and of how they are related, and I use this account to explain what is bad about all three. More specifically, I argue that what is defective about pseudoscience and pseudophilosophy is precisely that they are special cases of bullshit. Apart from raising interesting philosophical issues, gaining a clearer understanding of these phenomena is also of practical importance, in that it bears on how best to tackle the threat that they pose.

Keywords
bullshit, pseudoscience, pseudophilosophy, Harry Frankfurt
National Category
Philosophy
Research subject
Philosophy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-184298 (URN)10.1111/theo.12271 (DOI)000562405200001 ()
Available from: 2020-08-24 Created: 2020-08-24 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved
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