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Stephen Finlay (30 November 1956 – 14 February 2004) was an English actor, writer and artist. He trained as an artist at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and then as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He is the son of actor Frank Finlay.
Stephen Finlay is a professor at Australian Catholic University, Dianoia Institute of Philosophy. They are interested in Meta-Ethics, Normativity and Naturalism, Value Relativism, Moral Semantics, Internalism and Externalism about Moral Judgment, Moral Naturalism and Non-Naturalism, Misc, Moral Psychology, Misc, Reasons, Misc, and Philosophy of ...
Stephen Finlay argues that they can, advancing a new theory of the meaning of this language and providing pragmatic explanations of the specially problematic features of its moral and deliberative uses which comprise the puzzles of metaethics.
Stephen Finlay boldly attempts to undermine this pervasive assumption of irreducibility by proposing and defending specific reductive analyses of 'good', 'ought', and 'reason'.
S Finlay, D Plunkett. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Law 3, 49-86. , 2018. 25. 2018. Articles 1–20. Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at ACU & University of Southern California - Cited by 2,192.
This paper investigates whether different philosophers’ claims about “normativity” are about the same subject or (as recently argued by Derek Parfit) theorists who appear to disagree are really using the term ...
This paper offers a unifying semantics for the word ‘reason’, challenging three ideas that are popular in contemporary philosophy; (i) that ‘reason’ is semantically ambiguous, (ii) that the concept of a normative reason is the basic normative concept, and (iii) that basic normative concepts are unanalyzable.
