I’m a normative antirealist but I don’t think non-naturalist normative realism is intelligible. As such, I find many of the considerations that assign nonzero credence to it hard to fathom. I don’t know how to assign credence to utterances that I don’t think are propositions and if they are I don’t know what those propositions are.
I don’t think it makes any sense to talk about things “mattering” in a stance independent way. It sounds like saying something can be strance independently fun or intrinsically tasty. Things matter to me. But I don’t think the things that matter to me themselves have “matterworthiness.”
Also, since I only act based on what matters to me, as far as I can tell it wouldn’t matter to me whether anything mattered in the sense that realists seem to think that things matter. In other words, their very concept of the way in which things matter doesn’t matter to me. Think about trying to have a tasty meal. I am going to eat foods that taste good to me, not foods that are “objectively tasty” independent of how they taste to me. Likewise, even if there were objective normative facts, well, so what? Why care about them?
I’m a normative antirealist but I don’t think non-naturalist normative realism is intelligible. As such, I find many of the considerations that assign nonzero credence to it hard to fathom. I don’t know how to assign credence to utterances that I don’t think are propositions and if they are I don’t know what those propositions are.
I don’t think it makes any sense to talk about things “mattering” in a stance independent way. It sounds like saying something can be strance independently fun or intrinsically tasty. Things matter to me. But I don’t think the things that matter to me themselves have “matterworthiness.”
Also, since I only act based on what matters to me, as far as I can tell it wouldn’t matter to me whether anything mattered in the sense that realists seem to think that things matter. In other words, their very concept of the way in which things matter doesn’t matter to me. Think about trying to have a tasty meal. I am going to eat foods that taste good to me, not foods that are “objectively tasty” independent of how they taste to me. Likewise, even if there were objective normative facts, well, so what? Why care about them?