Abstract: I will argue that objectivity is a normative notion. By this I don’t mean that objectivity has normative qualities such as being valuable or worth striving for. That may be true, but it’s not the claim defended...
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Apologies are a central feature of our moral lives. When we have been wronged, we often hope for nothing more than an apology. And when we are the ones to have wronged someone, we often feel compelled to apologise.
Insofar as moral philosophy has taken up the practice of apology, the focus has been on apologies for grave wrongdoing or historical injustice. In contrast, my topic here are the everyday apologies we give and receive in our moral practice, which include not just grave wrongs but small...
In Skepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties, Strawson makes clear that his making central the idea of relativization to a perspective does not rule out adopting a realist attitude towards...