On Ordered Pluralism

Australasian Philosophical Review 3 (3): 305–11. 2019. doi:10.1080/24740500.2020.1859234

Beginning with the debate concerning “moral justice forgiveness” and “gifted” forgiveness, this paper critically examines Miranda Fricker’s method for ordering plural conceptions of a practice. It argues that the selection of a paradigm case, such as “moral justice forgiveness,” is not absolute, but depends on which functional aspect of the practice one wishes to explain.

Fricker, conceptual engineering, metaethics, methodology, pluralism, moral psychology

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