Belief pills and the possibility of moral epistemology

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Belief pills and the possibility of moral epistemology

I argue that evolutionary debunking arguments are dialectically ineffective against a range of plausible positions regarding moral truth. I first (§1) distinguish debunking arguments which target the truth of moral judgements from those which target their justification. I take the latter to rest on...

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Main Author:	Sinclair, Neil
Format:	Book Section
Published:	Oxford University Press 2017
Subjects:	Debunking arguments; Evolutionary ethics; Moral epistemology
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46632/

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