The pretensions of moral realism

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The pretensions of moral realism

Many philosophers argue that the face-value of moral practice provides presumptive support to moral realism. This paper analyses such arguments into three steps. (1) Moral practice has a certain face-value, (2) only realism can vindicate this face value, and (3) the face-value needs vindicating. Two...

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Main Author:	Sinclair, Neil
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell 2012
Subjects:	Meta-ethics; Moral realism; Moral expressivism; Presumptive Arguments for Realism
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1638/

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