Sharon Street, born in 1973, is an American philosopher who is Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at New York University. She specializes in metaethics, focusing in particular on how to reconcile our understanding of normativity with a scientific conception of the world. Her doctoral dissertation examined the metaethical implications of evolutionary biological explanations of our normative capacities, and whether such explanations might have an undermining effect on our moral and other normative commitments.
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1973
Associated With: Evolutionary Debunking Argument, Research
Street's doctoral dissertation examined the metaethical implications of evolutionary biological explanations of our normative capacities, and whether such explanations might have an undermining effect on our moral and other normative commitments.
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Metaethics, normative ethics
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Analytic philosophy
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Analytic philosophy
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