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This paper distinguishes four senses of naturalism: (1) reductive physicalism; (2) a naturalism (Foot, Hursthouse) that departs from what Thompson calls “natural-historical judgments”; (3) a naturalism (McDowell) that recognizes that physical nature is located within the space of reasons; and (4) a phenomenological naturalism that shifts the focus to the “natural” experiences of subjects who encounter the world. The paper argues for a “phenomenological neo-Aristotelianism” that accounts both for the internal justification of our first-order moral experience and the need for a broader grounding in a universalistic account of the goods of agency.
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Drummond, J.J. (2015). Neo-Aristotelian Ethics: Naturalistic or Phenomenological. In: Bloechl, J., de Warren, N. (eds) Phenomenology in a New Key: Between Analysis and History. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 72. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02018-1_8
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