ASurvey Study on a Better Moral Subject Matter Education

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-207
Author(s):  
Bong-soo Kang
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Moral Subject

Radical Interpretation and the Referential Stability of Wrongness

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
J. Robert G. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Radical Interpretation ◽  
Normative Concept ◽  
First Order ◽  
Moral Subject ◽  
Twin Earth ◽  
Conceptual Role ◽  
The World ◽  
Moral Twin Earth

This chapter is one of three that draws out the consequences of Radical Interpretation for how concepts represent the world. This chapter introduces a famous ‘moral twin earth’ puzzle about the normative concept wrongness. It appears to have a distinctive referential stability: individuals or whole communities can be very mistaken in what they think makes an act morally right or wrong, but somehow they remain locked onto the moral subject matter. This chapter derives this stability as a prediction of Radical Interpretation. Radical Interpretation predicts the result when combined with first-order normative premises and premises about the conceptual role of the concept of wrongness.

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