On Parfit’s ontology
| dc.contributor.author | Mintz-Woo, Kian | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-01T10:21:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-01T10:21:13Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-10-04 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2020-09-01T08:24:55Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Parfit 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.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mintz-Woo, K. (2018) 'On Parfit's Ontology', Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 48 (5), pp. 707-725. doi: 10.1080/00455091.2017.1381935 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/00455091.2017.1381935 | en |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 725 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0045-5091 | |
| dc.identifier.issued | 5 | en |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Canadian Journal of Philosophy | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 707 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/10427 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 48 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en |
| 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.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Abstracta | en |
| dc.subject | Derek Parfit | en |
| dc.subject | On What Matters | en |
| dc.subject | Platonism | en |
| dc.subject | Meta ethics | en |
| dc.subject | Ontology | en |
| dc.subject | Reasons | en |
| dc.subject | Truth | en |
| dc.title | On Parfit’s ontology | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
