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The principle of moral supervenience states that moral predicates (e.g., permissible, obligatory, forbidden, etc.) supervene upon non-moral predicates, and hence that moral facts involving these predicates (like stealing is wrong) supervene upon non-moral facts. The moral facts are hence said to be supervenient facts, and the non-moral facts the supervenience base of the former. In additional to actions, moral facts could also be about character traits or situations, e.g., Alice is virtuous, or Shane's suffering was morally bad.

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Moral supervenience

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principle of moral supervenience states that moral predicates (e.g., permissible, obligatory, forbidden, etc.) supervene upon non-moral predicates, and...

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Supervenience

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on the properties of individual atoms. One's moral character supervenes on one's action(s). Supervenience is of interest to philosophers because it differs...

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Moral universalizability

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present, the same predicate applies. According to the principle of moral supervenience, moral properties of actions (obligatory, permissible, forbidden, etc...

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Metaethics

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there are objective moral properties and that these properties are reducible or stand in some metaphysical relation (such as supervenience) to entirely non-ethical...

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Euthyphro dilemma

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divine command theory is incompatible with ordinary conceptions of moral supervenience. Why do God's commands obligate?: Mere commands do not create obligations...

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Philosophical razor

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modal realism". In Preyer, G.; Siebelt, F. (eds.). Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis. Studies in Epistemology and...

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Michael Tooley

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1999). In five volumes: Volume 1 - Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience; Volume 2 - The Nature of Time; Volume 3 - Properties; Volume 4 - Particulars...

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Bernard Williams

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Arthur Owen Williams, FBA (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher. His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Ethics...

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American Philosophical Quarterly

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fiction" (1978) - David Lewis "Supervenience and Nomological Incommensurables" (1978) - Jaegwon Kim "The Corporation as a Moral Person" (1979) - Peter A French...

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Alice Crary

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Winch. Crary's first monograph, Beyond Moral Judgment, discusses how literature and feminism help to reframe moral presuppositions. Her Inside Ethics argues...

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Peter Singer

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Peter Albert David Singer AC FAHA (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton...

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Analytic philosophy

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world when we are in it. Lewis also defended what he called Humean supervenience, a counterfactual theory of causation, and contributed to abstract object...

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Cora Diamond

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Diamond (born 1937) is an American philosopher who works in the areas of moral philosophy, animal ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of language...

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Art and morality

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explicitly Platonist route, have argued that the relationship is one akin to supervenience. Here, it is argued that an essential component of the production of...

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Philosophy of mind

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Davidson uses the thesis of supervenience: mental states supervene on physical states, but are not reducible to them. "Supervenience" therefore describes a...

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The Conscious Mind

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consciousness logically supervenes on the physical, and that such failures of supervenience mean that materialism must be false. Heat and luminescence, for instance...

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John McDowell

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significant contributions to moral philosophy, specifically meta-ethical debates over the nature of moral reasons and moral objectivity. McDowell developed...

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Alexander Rosenberg

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biology and other parts of biology. Rosenberg introduced the concept of supervenience to the treatment of intertheoretical relations in biology, soon after...

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Thomas Nagel

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"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (1974), and for his contributions to liberal moral and political theory in The Possibility of Altruism (1970) and subsequent...

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Mark Rowlands

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Supplement added that it "could become a philosophical cult classic." Supervenience and Materialism, Ashgate, 1995. Animal Rights: A Philosophical Defence...

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Michael Walzer

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which holds that the metric of just equality is not some single material or moral good, but rather that egalitarian justice demands that each good be distributed...

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Derek Parfit

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ethics. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Parfit rose to prominence...

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Phenomenalism

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Berlin Virtual Library. 2004. Bolender, John. Factual Phenomenalism: a Supervenience Theory, in SORITES Issue #09. April 1998. pp. 16–31. Phenomenalism at...

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