On the Defensibility and Believability of Moral Error Theory: Reply to Evers, Streumer, and Toppinen

This article is a response to critical articles by Daan Evers, Bart Streumer, and Teemu Toppinen on my book Moral Error Theory: History, Critique, Defence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ). I will be concerned with four main topics. I shall first try to illuminate the claim that moral facts are qu...

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Auteur principal: Olson, Jonas (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: 2016
Dans: Journal of moral philosophy
Année: 2016, Volume: 13, Numéro: 4, Pages: 461-473
Sujets non-standardisés:B queerness
B Mackie
B moral error theory
B supervenience
B irreducible normativity
B Contextualism
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Résumé:This article is a response to critical articles by Daan Evers, Bart Streumer, and Teemu Toppinen on my book Moral Error Theory: History, Critique, Defence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ). I will be concerned with four main topics. I shall first try to illuminate the claim that moral facts are queer, and its role in the argument for moral error theory. In section 2, I discuss the relative merits of moral error theory and moral contextualism. In section 3, I explain why I still find the queerness argument concerning supervenience an unpromising argument against non-naturalistic moral realism. In section 4, finally, I reconsider the question whether I, or anyone, can believe the error theory.
ISSN:1745-5243
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of moral philosophy
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/17455243-01304005