non-reductive realism;
normative properties;
reduction;
supervenience;
MORAL PERCEPTION;
D O I:
10.1111/phpr.13029
中图分类号:
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号:
01 ;
0101 ;
摘要:
There is a well-known argument against irreducibly normative properties that appeals to the following claim about supervenience: for all possible worlds W and W*, if the instantiation of descriptive properties in W and W* is exactly the same, then the instantiation of normative properties in W and W* is also exactly the same. This claim used to be uncontroversial, but recently several philosophers have challenged it. Do these challenges undermine this argument? I argue that they do not, since the negation of this claim about supervenience has consequences that are much more implausible than the negations of key premises in these challenges.