2 Citations
Normative explanation unchained
- Philosophy, Biology
- 2020
It is argued that one important kind of normative explanations which first-order normative theories aim to formulate and defend can fail to transmit downward along chains of metaphysical determination of normative facts by non-normative facts.
Pourquoi il est bon de vivre certaines émotions dites négatives
- Revue de métaphysique et de morale
- 2022
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Ben Bramble, Dan Haybron and others have endorsed the idea that there are unconscious, or unfelt, pleasures and pains. These would be sensory experiences that are genuine pleasures or pains, but…
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- 2017
This article responds to a new objection, due to Ben Bramble, against attitudinal theories of sensory pleasure and pain: the objection from unconscious pleasures and pains. According to the…
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