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Inference and Justification in Ethics
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Sparks, Jacob
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Year and Degree
2018, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, Philosophy, Applied.
Abstract
We all say that certain moral views – true or false, agreed to or not – are reasonable, rational or justified. When we say this, we mean, roughly, that the agent who has come to these views has answered her ethical questions in a responsible way and that her beliefs are defensible from her own perspective. Whether or not these beliefs turn out true, they have some epistemic merit. This work is an investigation into that notion of epistemic merit. It asks, "What makes a moral belief justified?"
Committee
Christian Coons (Advisor)
Michael Weber (Committee Member)
Michael Bradie (Committee Member)
Daniel Fasko (Committee Member)
Pages
76 p.
Subject Headings
Epistemology
;
Ethics
;
Philosophy
Keywords
ethics
;
metaethics
;
epistemology
;
moral epistemology
;
intuition
;
perception
;
inference
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Sparks, J. (2018).
Inference and Justification in Ethics
[Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1515362257905547
APA Style (7th edition)
Sparks, Jacob.
Inference and Justification in Ethics.
2018. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1515362257905547.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Sparks, Jacob. "Inference and Justification in Ethics." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1515362257905547
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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