GOAL
• examine metaphysical, epistemological, psychological, and
semantic issues concerning moral thought and talk in
contemporary metaethics.
• questions of interest: Are there moral facts? If there are, are they
objective? What is the nature of moral judgment? Are moral
judgments more like belief or more like desire? What relationship
is there, if any, between the nature of moral judgment and the
conventional meaning of moral language? What is the connection
between making a moral judgment and being motivated to act in
accordance with it?
• examine issues in debates between Cognitivism vs. Expressivism
vs. Hybrid theories
• investigate prospects of resolving the Frege-Geach problem;
• examine issues about moral truth and moral disagreements
• discuss recent literature on slurs and pejoratives and the
prospects of the analogy between moral terms and pejorative/slur
terms
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