Abstract
There is a well-known argument against irreducibly normative properties that appeals to the following claim about supervenience: for all possible worlds W and W*, if the instantiation of descriptive properties in W and W* is exactly the same, then the instantiation of normative properties in W and W* is also exactly the same. This claim used to be uncontroversial, but recently several philosophers have challenged it. Do these challenges undermine this argument? I argue that they do not, since the negation of this claim about supervenience has consequences that are much more implausible than the negations of key premises in these challenges.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 138-154 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Philosophy and phenomenological research |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Early online date | 25-Sept-2023 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jul-2024 |
Keywords
- non-reductive realism
- normative properties
- reduction
- supervenience
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