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    The Generalized Integration Challenge in Metaethics
    Schroeter, L ; Schroeter, F (WILEY, 2019-03)
    Abstract The Generalized Integration Challenge (GIC) is the task of providing, for a given domain of discourse, a simultaneously acceptable metaphysics, epistemology and metasemantics and showing them to be so. In this paper, we focus on a metaethical position for which (GIC) seems particularly acute: the brand of normative realism which takes normative properties to be (i) mind‐independent and (ii) causally inert. The problem is that these metaphysical commitments seem to make normative knowledge impossible. We suggest that bringing metasemantics into play can help to resolve this puzzle. We propose an independently plausible metasemantic constraint on reference determination and show how it can provide a plausible response to (GIC) for this brand of normative realism.
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    Jazz Redux: a reply to Möller
    Schroeter, L ; Schroeter, F (Springer, 2014)
    This paper is a response to Niklas Möller’s (Philosophical Studies, 2013) recent criticism of our relational (Jazz) model of meaning of thin evaluative terms. Möller’s criticism rests on a confusion about the role of coordinating intentions in Jazz. This paper clarifies what’s distinctive and controversial about the Jazz proposal and explains why Jazz, unlike traditional accounts of meaning, is not committed to analycities.
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    Les émotions représentent-elles les valeurs ?
    Schroeter, F (Academic Press Fribourg, 2018)
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    The Many Moral Rationalisms
    Schroeter, F ; Jones, K ; Jones, K ; Schroeter, F (Oxford University Press, 2018)
    Moral rationalism takes human reason and human rationality to be the key elements in an explanation of the nature of morality, moral judgment, and moral knowledge. This volume explores the resources of this rich philosophical tradition.
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    Keeping track of what's right
    Schroeter, L ; Schroeter, F (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2018)
    In this paper, we argue that ordinary judgments about core normative topics purport to attribute stable, objective properties and relations. Our strategy is first to analyze the structures and practices characteristic of paradigmatically representational concepts such as concepts of objects and natural kinds. We identify three broad features that ground the representational purport of these concepts. We then argue that core normative concepts exhibit these same features.
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    Moralité et egoisme
    SCHROETER, F (University of Fribourg, 2015)
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    Moral Expertise
    Schroeter, F ; Jones, K ; McPherson, T, ; Plunkett, D, (Routledge, 2018)
    This Handbook surveys the contemporary state of the burgeoning field of metaethics.
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    Metasemantics and Metaethics
    Schroeter, L ; Schroeter, F ; McPherson, T, ; Plunkett, D, (Routledge, 2018)
    Metaethicists disagree about the semantic content of normative and evaluative terms. To adjudicate such disagreements, we need consider different metasemantic theories, which seek to explain what makes it the case that certain words (and the thoughts they express) have the semantic contents they do. In this chapter, we explain how answers to this metasemantic question impact on debates within metaethics.
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    Rationalizing Self-Interpretation
    Schroeter, L ; Schroeter, F ; Daly, C (PALGRAVE, 2015)
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    Do Emotions Represent Values?
    Schroeter, L ; Schroeter, F ; Jones, K (WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2015-09)