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    The open-question-style objection to metaphysical analyse... — Carmelics
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    The open-question-style objection to metaphysical analyses of normativity is not decisive

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    • 1.The open-question objection bears a family resemblance to Moore's open question argument
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    • 2.The best responses to the open-question objection are similar to familiar responses to Moore's open question argument
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    • 3.A metaphysical analysis of what the normativity of a worldly property or state of affairs could consist in is not likely to be knowable a priori
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    • 1.Moore's open question argument succeeds specifically against naturalistic reductions because normative concepts have irreducible action-guiding content.
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    • 2.The family resemblance between open-question objections and Moore's argument strengthens, not weakens, the objection by inheriting Moore's positive case for non-naturalism.
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    • 3.Responses to Moore (e.g., Cornell realism) have failed to explain why normative properties motivate rational agents, leaving the core problem intact.
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    • 1.If metaphysical analyses of normativity are not knowable a priori, then any proposed analysis cannot be verified as normatively adequate rather than merely extensionally coincident.
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    • 2.A posteriori identification of normativity with natural properties (as in Jackson's analytical functionalism) collapses into the very descriptivism Hare showed fails to capture prescriptivity.
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    It is no accident that this all-purpose objection bears a family resemblance to Moore’s open question argument. And the best responses to it are similar to familiar responses to Moore. A substantive analysis of a philosophically interesting concept would not be informative if it were obviously correct. And nothing guarantees that the best analysis of a philosophically interesting concept will be obviously correct. Further, a metaphysical analysis of what the normativity of a worldly property or
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