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T1 A Semantic Approach to Moral Relativism
A1 Escribano Asensio, Haizea
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 moral relativism
K1 faultless disagreement
K1 circumstance of evaluation
K1 context of utterance
K1 semantic relativism
K1 moral realism
AB In this paper I aim to give a semantic account of moral relativism, that roughlyadvocates the idea that the truth or falsity of moral judgements is not absolute but onlyrelative to the moral standards of different cultures or communities. I will first examineKölbel’s relativism regarding predicates of personal taste in order to assess its capacityto account for faultless disagreement in culinary or aesthetic matters. The idea ofdisagreement without fault is, in fact, very intuitive in these areas, and conveys the ideathat when each of two different speakers utter, respectively, a pair of mutually negatedsentences ‐or, in other words, contradictory statements‐ neither of them must be at fault.In order to understand Kölbel’s proposal of semantic relativism I will first briefly reviewthe core concepts of Kaplan’s two‐dimensional semantics, which will provide me with avery necessary set of semantic tools to assess the truth‐value of non‐objectivepropositions ‐may these be of aesthetic, culinary or moral nature‐. Once the relativistsemantic discourse and its core concepts are clarified, I intend to apply it to the moralsphere, in order to evaluate whether the intuition of faultless disagreement should bepreserved in matters regarding morality. In these ponderations, I will adduce some ofthe premises of moral realism, the metaethical opponent of moral relativism, which willhelp me gain a better understanding of the latter’s metaethical implications. Lastly, Iwant to conclude that Kölbel’s semantic relativism and its preservation of disagreementwithout fault is legitimately applicable to moral claims
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33423
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/33423
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filosofía (Filosofía, Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Teoría e Historia de la Educación, Filosofía Moral, Estética y Teoría de las Artes)
DS UVaDOC
RD 28-nov-2024