BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260912T123250Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20180816T121500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20180816T141500 SUMMARY:A Pragmatic Method for Conceptual Ethics UID:20260912T123319Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1876:beff:feed:47f9%3 TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:University of Melbourne\, Melbourne\, Australia DESCRIPTION:

How ought we to do work in conceptual ethics? Some have thought that conceptual choice should itself be guided by (heavyweight) metaphysics&mdash\;for we should be sure that our concepts pick out things that exist or should aim to choose concepts that really &lsquo\;carve the world at its joints&rsquo\;. An alternative is to take a pragmatic approach to conceptual ethics. But pragmatic approaches are often criticized as unable to account for intuitions that some conceptual choices are \;objectively better \;than others\, and intuitions that the world is structured. As a result\, the fear is that a pragmatic approach leaves conceptual choices arbitrary and insusceptible to critique. This paper confronts such worries and develops a pragmatic method for conceptual ethics that clearly avoids these problems. As a result\, we need not rely on heavyweight metaphysics and become entangled in its epistemological mysteries to do conceptual ethics.

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