Date of Award

2014-01-01

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

Philosophy

Advisor(s)

Marc Moffett

Second Advisor

Caroline Arruda

Abstract

Conventional accounts of moral supervenience are not fit for the moral realist to use against skeptic objections. In particular, they do not provide a sufficiently robust account of dependence or determination needed to counter the argument from queerness.This is shown in their inadequacy to deal with cases of minimal discernibility and cases of moral gradation. A similarity-base account of supervenient seems to be the one that the moral realist ought to incorporate instead.

Language

en

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Size

35 pages

File Format

application/pdf

Rights Holder

Ramon Alvarado

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