Shaw, A orcid.org/0000-0001-7559-3224 (2023) The Necessity of ‘Need’. Ethics: an international journal of social, political, and legal philosophy, 133 (3). pp. 329-354. ISSN 0014-1704
Abstract
Many philosophers have suggested that claims of need play a special normative role in ethical thought and talk. But what do such claims mean? What does this special role amount to? Progress on these questions can be made by attending to a puzzle concerning some linguistic differences between two types of ‘need’ sentence: one where ‘need’ occurs as a verb, one where it occurs as a noun. I argue that the resources developed to solve the puzzle advance our understanding of the metaphysics of need, the meaning of ‘need’ sentences, and the function of claims of need in ethical discourse.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The University of Chicago. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2022 14:16 |
Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2024 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1086/723245 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:192266 |