【Subject Class】Ethics, Meta-Ethics 【Keyword】Moral Realism, Moral Projectivism, Moral Facts, Moral Supervenience, Simon Blackburn 【Abstract】This is a realist response to Blackburn’s version of the explanatory inadequacy of the moral thesis based on the ban on mixed worlds, and to its possible explanatory reductionism version. First, the moral supervenience relationship is made explicit, for the ...

Global supervenience of beliefs about physical states of affairs on such states has strongly counter-intuitive consequences about what beliefs we can nomologically hold. Tfcs is an argument against a global supervenience of all mental properties on physical 0 es, and, since that is implied by strong supervenience, also against that as the preferred aterialist thesis. I. K A P L A N ' S P R O B ...

Consider a straight line on a flat surface running from point A to C and passing though B. Suppose the distance AB to be four inches, and the distance BC to be six inches. We can infer that the distance AC is ten inches. Of all geometrical inferences, this is surely one of the simplest. Of course, things are a little more complicated if the surface is not flat. If A, B and C are points on a sph...

(1) I agree with Ross’s (1999), central claim: Color vision scientists implicitly accept a certain supervenience thesis of phenomenal properties of visual experience on internally individuated physiological properties of the visual system (I shall come back to the question of how the supervenience claim at issue should be spelled out in detail). He correctly points out that one of the premises ...

This paper aims to support the claim that analytic metaphysics should be more cautious regarding constraints truthmaking considerations impose on metaphysical theories. To this end, I reply Briggs and Forbes (Philos Stud 174(4):927–943, 2017), who argue certain commitments are incurred by a Humean Growing-Block theory. First, Supervenience does not need endorse standard version of truthmaker ma...

This paper is an overview of my philosophical work. It follows closely the structure of the handout I used as the basis for a talk on this topic at the 2000 meeting of the Austro-Slovene Philosophical Association. The section-headings mention major themes, and various key concepts are indicated by boldface terms in the text. I invoked the notion of supervenience in my doctoral dissertation, Mic...

When several decades ago the IRB system was established trying to balance major moral consideration in research with human subjects, the main impetus were severe cases of unethical behaviour and experiences, often protected by state and institutional administration. The first phase of the IRB aimed at protecting subjects from serious hazards, while in later stages the IRB turned to „lesser risk...