Dear all This Thursday’s current projects will be:
Moral Non-naturalistic Explanation by Sam Baron, Mark Colyvan, Kristie Miller and Michael Rubin (Colyvan and Miller to present) As usual, papers are held in the Muniment room in the main Quad at 3.00. Moral non-naturalists deny the explanatory criterion for ontological commitment on the grounds that moral non-naturalism is at odds with moral explanation. In order to defend their view, some moral non-naturalists offer a ‘partners in crime argument’. Mathematical facts, they contend, are not explanatory either, and so we have independent reason to deny the explanatory criterion of ontological commitment, or else risk losing facts about numbers. Recently, however, many philosophers of mathematics have argued that mathematics is explanatory. Thus, we argue, the moral non-naturalist has lost her partner in crime—she stands alone in failing to provide explanations. We offer an extension of the explanatory framework developed in the philosophy of mathematics and suggest that the moral non-naturalist might appeal to this framework in order to offer moral explanations. Associate Professor Kristie Miller Senior ARC Research Fellow Joint Director, the Centre for Time School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and The Centre for Time The University of Sydney Sydney Australia Room 407, A 14 [email protected] [email protected] Ph: +612 9036 9663 http://www.kristiemiller.net/KristieMiller2/Home_Page.html
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