Constructivism and Three Forms of Perspective‐Dependence in Metaethics 1

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 89 (1):68-101 (2014)
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Discusses how to develop the idea that the normative truth is perspective-dependent with a broadly constructivist approach to metaethics - arguing in favor of developing this idea in terms of the idea that the normative truth is dependent upon the perspective of the assessor.

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10.1111/j.1933-1592.2012.00633.x

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