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What is it for something to be good? Using the example
of an Ebola-like microbe, I argue that a merely kind-based account of goodness
is defective (Chapter 1). I offer instead an account that is both kind-based
and platonic (Chapter 2). On such an account, goodness turns out to be
non-natural (Chapter 3). However, non-naturalists can explain why the goodness
of an individual supervenes on its natural properties, by appealing to the
essence of the kind to which it belongs (Chapter 4).
History
Degree Type
- Doctor of Philosophy
Department
- Philosophy
Campus location
- West Lafayette