On Parfit’s ontology

dc.contributor.authorMintz-Woo, Kian
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-01T10:21:13Z
dc.date.available2020-09-01T10:21:13Z
dc.date.issued2017-10-04
dc.date.updated2020-09-01T08:24:55Z
dc.description.abstractParfit denies that the introduction of reasons into our ontology is costly for his theory. He puts forth two positions to help establish the claim: the Plural Senses View and the Argument from Empty Ontology. I argue that, first, the Plural Senses View for ‘exists’ can be expanded to allow for senses which undermine his ontological claims; second, the Argument from Empty Ontology can be debunked by Platonists. Furthermore, it is difficult to make statements about reasons true unless these statements include reference to objects in reality. These arguments show the instability of Parfit’s claimed metaethical advantages over naturalism.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMintz-Woo, K. (2018) 'On Parfit's Ontology', Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 48 (5), pp. 707-725. doi: 10.1080/00455091.2017.1381935en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/00455091.2017.1381935en
dc.identifier.endpage725en
dc.identifier.issn0045-5091
dc.identifier.issued5en
dc.identifier.journaltitleCanadian Journal of Philosophyen
dc.identifier.startpage707en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10427
dc.identifier.volume48en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.rights© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectAbstractaen
dc.subjectDerek Parfiten
dc.subjectOn What Mattersen
dc.subjectPlatonismen
dc.subjectMeta ethicsen
dc.subjectOntologyen
dc.subjectReasonsen
dc.subjectTruthen
dc.titleOn Parfit’s ontologyen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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