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    Bart Streumer — Carmelics
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    Bart Streumer

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy, Metaethics

    Bart Streumer is a contemporary Dutch analytic philosopher specializing in metaethics and practical reason, currently based at the University of Groningen. He is best known for defending a radical error theory, arguing in his monograph 'Unbelievable Errors' (2017) that all normative judgments are false because irreducibly normative properties do not exist. His work addresses the nature of normativity, reasons for action, and the possibility of reductive naturalist accounts of moral properties.

    Notable Achievements

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    Developed and defended a comprehensive error theory about all normative judgments in 'Unbelievable Errors' (Oxford University Press, 2017)

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    Argued that the error theory, though unbelievable, cannot be believed and is therefore self-undermining in a philosophically tractable way

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    Contributed influential work on the reducibility of normative properties to naturalistic properties

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    Advanced debates on the relationship between reasons, normativity, and consequentialist moral theories

    5

    Edited 'Reasons, Normativity, and Value' and contributed extensively to journals on practical reason and metaethics

    Positions & Arguments(1)

    Consequentialism

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    Wrongness is identical to the property of being a failure to maximize utility

    Truth & Knowledge

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    Wrongness is identical to the property of being a failure to maximize utility

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    Analytic Philosophy, Metaethics

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