NEIL SINCLAIR's Outputs (2)

The moral belief problem (2006)
Journal Article
Sinclair, N. (2006). The moral belief problem. Ratio, 19(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9329.2006.00323.x

The moral belief problem is that of reconciling expressivism in ethics with both minimalism in the philosophy of language and the syntactic discipline of moral sentences. It is argued that the problem can be solved by distinguishing minimal and robus... Read More about The moral belief problem.

Two kinds of naturalism in ethics (2006)
Journal Article
Sinclair, N. (2006). Two kinds of naturalism in ethics. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 9(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-006-9017-7

What are the conditions on a successful naturalistic account of moral properties? In this paper I discuss one such condition: the possibility of moral concepts playing a role in good empirical theories on a par with those of the natural and social sc... Read More about Two kinds of naturalism in ethics.