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Judgment Internalism: an Argument from Self-Knowledge

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: One of the most important metaethical debates concerns the relationship between evaluative judgments and motivation. The so-called judgment internalists claim that there is an internal modal connection between our evaluative judgments and motivation, whereas the so-called externalists believe that evaluative judgments are connected to desires only through contingent external facts. This debate has reached a standoff. My aim is to introduce a completely new argument for internalism, which does not rely on our intuitions about individual cases. I argue that the truth of internalism explains best why the so-called transparency method yields self-knowledge of what we desire.

Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

DOI: 10.1007/s10677-018-9923-5

Author: Jussi Suikkanen

Institution: University of Birmingham

Language: English

Topic: Philosophical Ethics and Theory

Subfield: Philosophy

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,290

Funders: University of Birmingham, Arts and Humanities Research Council