Moral and scientific realism: : essays in honor of Richard N. Boyd and Nicholas L. Sturgeon

• Autores: Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
• Localización: Philosophical Studies, ISSN-e 1573-0883, Vol. 172, Nº. 4, 2015, págs. 841-842
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The essays in this issue are presented in honor of philosophers Richard N. Boyd and Nicholas L. Sturgeon. This issue grew out of a conference held September 14–16, 2012, at Cornell University, to mark the occasion of their retirement from the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell.

    The theme of this special issue is realism in morality and in science. Boyd and Sturgeon are closely identified with the metaethical view known as “Cornell realism,” a theory both philosophers have articulated, developed and defended throughout their careers. Boyd’s and Sturgeon’s moral realism involves a commitment to objective, mind-independent facts about morality. Moral facts are natural facts, but irreducible to non-moral natural facts. Boyd is also a prominent defender of scientific realism, the view that scientific theories yield knowledge of the world, including of the unobservables the theories concern. Both Boyd and Sturgeon have related interests in evolutionary biology and its implications for ethic ...