CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Hajialikhani, Mohammadjavad |
|---|---|
| Title | Purity Against Non-Naturalism |
| Summary | Normative facts are those that involve a normative property (such as wrongness, badness, or reasonableness); for example, killing others is wrong; every action that fails to maximize utility is wrong. Non-naturalists claim that there are irreducible, sui generis normative properties. According to one important formulation of non-naturalism, non-naturalism is the thesis that at least some normative facts are not wholly grounded in the physical facts. In this thesis, I argue against that non-naturalism, understood as the ground-theoretic thesis expressed above, is false, which means normative facts are wholly grounded in non-normative ones, such as physical, mental, or social facts. |
| Supervisor | Asya Passinsky |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/hajialikhani_mohamma.pdf |
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