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IN DEFENSE OF FUTURE TUESDAY INDIFFERENCE: IDEALLY COHERENT ECCENTRICS AND THE CONTINGENCY OF WHAT MATTERS
Author(s) -
Street Sharon
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
philosophical issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.638
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1758-2237
pISSN - 1533-6077
DOI - 10.1111/j.1533-6077.2009.00170.x
Subject(s) - contingency , citation , media studies , sociology , library science , computer science , epistemology , philosophy
Some strange characters inhabit the world of metaethics. I’m not talking about the people who do metaethics, of course, though no doubt we’re an odd group too. The characters I have in mind are purely hypothetical, and they’re distinguished by two main features. First, they accept some value that is utterly unheard of, morally repugnant, or both. Second, their acceptance of this value coheres perfectly, as a logical and instrumental matter, with all of their other values in combination with the non-normative facts. Call these characters ideally coherent eccentrics.