What’s Wrong with Relaxing?

In his new book Unbelievable Errors, Bart Streumer argues that there is no way round the result that all metaethical views other than the error theory fail either for the same reasons as metaphysical normative realism or expressivism. In this contribution, I show that this is false: we can avoid thi...

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Main Author: Tiefensee, Christine (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2019
In: Journal of moral philosophy
Year: 2019, Volume: 16, Issue: 6, Pages: 725-742
Further subjects:B relaxed realism –
B Minimalism
B Error Theory
B Streumer
B non-metaphysical normative realism
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Summary:In his new book Unbelievable Errors, Bart Streumer argues that there is no way round the result that all metaethical views other than the error theory fail either for the same reasons as metaphysical normative realism or expressivism. In this contribution, I show that this is false: we can avoid this result by ‘relaxing’ about normative truths. Even if Streumer were right about the fate of other metaethical positions, then, relaxed realism remains immune to the problems he raises.
ISSN:1745-5243
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of moral philosophy
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/17455243-20182913