Stephen Maitzen argues that divine command metaethics must be mistaken because it is committed to the implausible assumption sentence ‘God (morally) good’ a tautology. In this article, I show charitable interpretation of R. M. Adams’ version not accept assumption. conclude Maitzen’s objection merely manages refute strawman metaethics.

The Beauty-is-Good stereotype refers to the assumption that attractive people possess sociably desirable personalities and higher moral standards. The existence of this bias suggests that the neural mechanisms for judging facial attractiveness and moral goodness overlap. To investigate this idea, we scanned participants with functional magnetic resonance imaging while they made attractiveness j...

Abstract Traditional theism says that the goodness of everything comes from God. Moreover, something intrinsically valuable can only come what has it. Many conclude these two claims no creatures have intrinsic value if traditional is true. I argue exemplarist theory divine ideas gives theist a way out. According to exemplarism, God creates according are about himself, and so resembles Since who...

In a seminal paper from 1983, Burr and Erd1⁄2os started the systematic study of Ramsey numbers of cliques vs. large sparse graphs, raising a number of problems. In this paper we develop a new approach to such Ramsey problems using a mix of the Szemerédi regularity lemma, embedding of sparse graphs, Turán type stability, and other structural results. We give exact Ramsey numbers for various clas...

We propose a way to construct consistent generalizations of the Cram er-von Mises test on the line, and the Watson U 2 n test on the circle, based on classes of partitions invariant under various group actions. The framework developed extends our earlier work generalizing the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Kuiper goodness-oft tests, and provides a conceptually unifying description. Many goodness-oft te...

We address the question 'how to measure goodness of time-processor optimal PRAM simulations'. Instead of measuring only the asymptotic complexity of simulation time, we attempt to take into account all aspects of simulations exactly. We present a goodness function framework and propose a generic function for measuring the goodness.

In the search for statistical dependency rules, a crucial task is to restrict the search space by estimating upper bounds for the goodness of yet undiscovered rules. In this paper, we show that all well-behaving goodness measures achieve their maximal values in the same points. Therefore, the same generic search strategy can be applied with any of these measures. The notion of well-behaving mea...

The analysis proposes a reduction of one moral concept (the concept of what we ought to do) to another pair of moral concepts (the concepts of goodness and badness). In order to fully understand the concept of what we ought to do, we must therefore combine the proposed analysis with an account of the nature of goodness and badness. Moore combines the analysis with his distinctive view of goodne...