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1 The Tri-Level Method 1 The Tri-Level Method
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2 The Nature of Data 2 The Nature of Data
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3 Collecting Metaethical Data 3 Collecting Metaethical Data
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4 Ideological Resources 4 Ideological Resources
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4.1 Concepts and Properties 4.1 Concepts and Properties
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4.2 Truths and Facts 4.2 Truths and Facts
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4.3 Grounding 4.3 Grounding
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4.4 Essence 4.4 Essence
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Appendix 1.A Metaethical Data Regarding Moral Psychology, Semantics, Epistemology, and Action Appendix 1.A Metaethical Data Regarding Moral Psychology, Semantics, Epistemology, and Action
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Appendix 1.B The Traditional View of Concepts and Properties Appendix 1.B The Traditional View of Concepts and Properties
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1 Methodology in Metaethics
Get accessAssociate Professor of Philosophy
Marsh Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy
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Published:May 2024
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Abstract
This chapter makes explicit ideas about method and data that figure centrally in the book’s inquiry into the central questions of metaethics. The discussion has four main sections. The first presents the methodology employed throughout the book. At its heart is the ‘Tri-Level Method,’ according to which theory construction occurs at three levels: at level one, theories are called to handle relevant data; at level two, to substantiate claims made when handling data, while also integrating these claims with our best picture of the world; and at level three, to determine (if necessary) whether the resulting theory is theoretically more virtuous than rival ones. The chapter’s second section characterizes philosophical data. The third identifies core metaethical data, as they pertain to the metaphysics and normativity of morality. The fourth elucidates the ideological resources—concepts, properties, truths, facts, grounding, and essence—upon which the book draws.
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