Year: 2000
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: I Moore’s Warning ‘I am the person Moore warned you against,’ joked David Lewis before reading his now famous paper, ‘Dispositional Theories of Value’, to the Aristotelian Society in 1989.³ The alleged warning occurs in §13 of Principia Ethica,⁴ the crucial passage in which Moore expounds the Open Question Argument. ‘To take, for instance one of the more plausible, because one of the more complicated of such [naturalistic] definitions,it may easily be thought, at first sight, that to be good may mean to be that which we desire to desire’ (PE, §13).
Author: Charles R Pigden
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W50602137