Ragnar Francén
VICEPREFEKT
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory ofAbout Ragnar Francén
Associate professor in practical philosophy. I did my PhD at the University of Gothenburg and in 2008 I defended my thesis (”Metaethical Relativism: Against the Single Analysis Assumption”). After that I was a lecturer at the University of Gothenburg and a post doc at Stockholm University 2010-2011.
Research My research mainly concerns fundamental questions about the nature of moral thought and language. What is it to think, for instance, that an act is morally wrong? Examples:
- In my dissertation and some papers I discuss the plausibility of contextualist and relativist views about moral thought according to which the content of moral beliefs varies from person to person.
- I have developed and defended a radical version of relativism (metaethical pluralism) to the effect that different metaethical analyses of the content of moral beliefs are correct for the moral beliefs of different persons.
- Given contextualism, relativism or pluralism about moral beliefs, how can we understand moral disagreement?
- What is the connection between accepting a moral judgment and being motivated to act in accordance with the judgment? (That is, the issue of motivational internalism vs. externalism.)
Research projects During 2017 I’m starting up the research project Metaethical Pluralism. 2013-2016 I was involved in the project Expressivism Generalized: The Scope of Non-Descriptive Thought and Talk. 2010-2012 I was involved in the Moral Motivation: Evidence and Relevance.
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Reconsidering the Meta-ethical Implications of Motivational Internalism and
Externalism
Ragnar Francén
Theoria-a Swedish Journal of Philosophy - 2020-01-01 -
Some Varieties of Metaethical
Relativism
Ragnar Francén Olinder
Philosophy Compass - 2016-01-01 -
Non-Cognitivism and the Classification Account of Moral
Uncertainty
John Eriksson, Ragnar Francén Olinder
Australasian Journal of Philosophy - 2016-01-01 -
Enoch’s Defense of Robust Meta-Ethical
Realism
Gunnar Björnsson, Ragnar Francén Olinder
Journal of Moral Philosophy - 2016-01-01 -
Motivational
Internalism
Gunnar Björnsson, Caj Strandberg, Ragnar Francén, John Eriksson, Fredrik Björklund
- 2015-01-01 -
Motivational Internalism: Contemporary
Debates
Gunnar Björnsson, Caj Strandberg, Ragnar Francén, John Eriksson, Fredrik Björklund
Motivational Internalism / edited by Gunnar Björnsson, Caj Strandberg, Ragnar Francén Olinder, John Eriksson, and Fredrik Björklund. - 2015-01-01 -
Motivational internalism and folk
intuitions
Gunnar Björnsson, John Eriksson, Caj Strandberg, Ragnar Francén, Fredrik Björklund
Philosophical Psychology - 2015-01-01 -
Internalists Beware – we Might all be
Amoralists!
Gunnar Björnsson, Ragnar Francén
Australasian Journal of Philosophy - 2013-01-01 -
Moral Relativism, Error-Theory, and Ascriptions of
Mistakes
Ragnar Francén
Journal of Philosophy - 2013-01-01 -
Recent Work on Motivational
Internalism
Fredrik Björklund, Gunnar Björnsson, John Eriksson, Ragnar Francén, Caj Strandberg
Analysis - 2012-01-01 -
Rescuing Doxastic
Normativism
Ragnar Francén
Theoria - 2012-01-01 -
Moral and Metaethical Pluralism: Unity in
Variation
Ragnar Francén
Southern Journal of Philosophy - 2012-01-01 -
Svavarsdóttir's
Burden
Ragnar Francén
Philosophia - 2012-01-01 -
Moral motivation
pluralism
Ragnar Francén
Journal of Ethics - 2010-01-01 -
No deep disagreement for new
relativists
Ragnar Francén
Philosophical Studies - 2010-01-01 -
Att kunna skilja mellan rätt och
fel
Ragnar Francén
Tillräknelighet - 2009-01-01 -
COMMENT ON ERLER: SPEAKER RELATIVISM AND SEMANTIC
INTUITIONS
Ragnar Francén
Praxis - 2009-01-01 -
Metaethical Relativism: Against the Single Analysis
Assumption
Ragnar Francén
- 2007-01-01 -
Om den personliga egalitarismen: replik till
Rabinowicz
Ragnar Francén, Jonas Gren, Niklas Juth
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi - 2005-01-01 -
Metaetisk
Metarelativism
Ragnar Francén
Filosofidagarna - 2005-01-01 -
Metaethical relativism and motivational
internalism
Ragnar Francén
Dag Westerståhl (ed., with T. Tännsjö), Lectures on Relativism, Philosophical Communications, red series no. 40 - 2005-01-01 -
Moralisk oenighet - bara på
ytan?
Ragnar Francén
Humanistdagboken 18 - 2005-01-01 -
Om
ojämlikhet
Niklas Juth, Ragnar Francén, Jonas Gren
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi - 2003-01-01