I argue that evolutionary strategies of kin selection and game-theoretic reciprocity are apt to generate agent-centered and agentneutral moral intuitions, respectively. Such intuitions are the building blocks of moral theories, resulting in a fundamental schism between agent-centered theories on the one hand and agentneutral theories on the other. An agent-neutral moral theory is one according ...

In many ways, the paces we've be.cn put through here ;,~.re entirely typical of philosophical disc:ussion. Perhaps most typical is the state of play at the end of the day. Rarely do philosophers have k."lock.down arguments that can eliminate a philosophical position from contenlli>n. Philosophical evaluation is ordinarily a matter of weighing the pros and cons of competing theories, and tentati...

I Preliminary remarks What I am calling New Age Relativism is usually proposed as a thesis about the truth-conditions of utterances, where an utterance is an actual historic voicing or inscription of a sentence of a certain type. Roughly, it is the view that, for certain discourses, whether an utterance is true depends not just on the context of its making—when, where, to whom, by whom, in what...

In The empirical stance, Bas van Fraassen argues for a reconceptualization of empiricism, and a rejection of its traditional rival, speculative metaphysics, as part of a larger and provocative study in epistemology. Central to his account is the notion of voluntarism in epistemology, and a concomitant understanding of the nature of rationality. In this paper I give a critical assessment of thes...

The weak epistemic modal operators might, possible, likely, and probable display embedding behaviors and scope interactions that are interestingly different from their logically stronger counterparts must and certain. I present two problematic sets of facts about these operators which have not received much attention in the literature. The first is that weak epistemic modals embed freely under ...

This study aims to determine the effect of ethical ideology on judgment with professional commitment as a mediator. The respondents this were KAP auditors in Malang City. distribution questionnaires used obtained sample 77 respondents. research was tested using path analysis, results concluded that (idealism) has positive and can be mediated by commitment, while (relativism) hurts commitment. s...