The case against evaluative realism

• Autores: Dan López de Sa
• Localización: Theoria: an international journal for theory, history and foundations of science, ISSN 0495-4548, Vol. 21, Nº 57, 2006, págs. 277-294
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this paper I offer a characterization of evaluative realism, present the intuitive case against it, and offer two considerations to support it further: one concerning the internalist connection between values and motivation, and the other concerning the intuitibve causal inefficacy of evaluative properties. The considerations ultimately rely on the former intuitions themselves, but are not devoid of interest, as they might make one revise what one took to be his own realistic supporting intuitions, if such one had