Le GRIN est heureux d’accueillir Krister Bykvist (Stockholm University), qui offrira une présentation intitulée « A Moorean argument against Brentano-style analyses of ‘good’ ».

Résumé

Suppose with Brentano that ‘good’ means ‘worthy of love’. Then ‘A is less good than B’ means ‘A is less worthy of love than B’. Brentano also says that ‘A is less good than B’ means ‘A is worthy of less love than B’. Moore argues that ‘A is less worthy of love than B’ does not mean the same as ‘A is worthy of less love than B’. Hence, if Moore is right, something is deeply wrong with Brentano’s analysis of ‘good’. But can his analysis (and similar ones) be refuted by such a simple argument? That is the question I will discuss in my talk.