Browsing College of Arts and Sciences (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Johnson, Robert N."
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A defense of the relational account of morality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)In this essay I shall defend the thesis that morality is an intrinsically relational normative domain constituted by relational claims and corresponding directed duties. On the relational approach to morality, moral ... -
Natural law and the challenge of legal positivism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)In this dissertation I develop and defend a version of a general theory of the nature of law inspired by the classical natural law tradition, with special intellectual debt to the articulation of that tradition by John ... -
Non-cognitivism, internalism, and the Frege-Geach problem
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)This dissertation is about the prospects for non-cognitivism. Chapter One provides some background and introduces the remaining chapters. Chapter Two focuses on the distinction between non-cognitivism about moral thought ... -
Placement of special obligation in morality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My thesis attempts to explain how special obligations are moral obligations. The morality of special obligations is put into question by the thesis of ...