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Wedgwood on Moral Knowledge and Moral Epistemology pt. II
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics on July 23, 2014
Section Three: The Epistemology of Normative Belief Part II: Disagreement and the A Priori Having articulated a theory of how we can come to have moral knowledge (see here), Wedgwood turns to whether such knowledge is a priori, and if so, how there can be such widespread moral disagreement. Wedgwood takes Kant’s work on the […]
a priori, conceptual role semantics, contextualism, epistemology, Ethics, Immanuel Kant, Kant, Kant's idealism, metaethics, moral disagreement, moral epistemology, moral intuitions, moral realism, moral skepticism, Morality, philosophy, Ralph Wedgwood, self-evidence, self-evident beliefs, the argument from disagreement, the nature of normativity
The Incommensurability of Values (and objectivity, subjectivity, and reason)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality on March 20, 2014
Jmeqvist posted an excellent entry on the inability of interpersonal reasoning-based dialogue to resolve all value conflicts in a polity, and although I disagree with his thesis, today I want to touch on a difficulty for moral/value discourse he points to, and what consequences it suggests for metaethical theorizing. Jmeqvist notes that value conflict resolution […]
error theory, ethical intuitionism, metaethics, moral disagreement, moral subjectivism, Morality, objectivity, philosophy, the argument from disagreement
The Argument From Disagreement (and moral vs. non-moral facts, realism and intuitionism)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality on February 26, 2014
Earlier today I posted an entry on how ethical dilemmas and moral disagreements can be caused by disagreement on the non-moral facts of a case, such that moral disagreements aren’t by themselves reasons to doubt the objectivity of morality, as the moral anti-realist holds; now seems a good time to explore the ways in which […]
anti-realism, ethical intuitionism, Ethics, G. E. Moore, metaethics, moral belief, moral disagreement, moral knowledge, moral realism, Morality, Philip Stratton-Lake, philosophy, Robert Audi, self-evidence, self-evident beliefs, the argument from disagreement, the is/ought gap
Genetically Modified Babies (and moral duties, harm, and moral disagreement)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality on February 26, 2014
The Washington Post reports that the FDA has begun reviewing a process of canceling out genetically inherited diseases by creating embryos with three genetic parents. While the article explains the science and the history of the process quite well, it fails to go into detail about the “ethical issues” posed by such a process, though […]
benefit vs harm, disease, duty-based ethics, health, medical ethics, metaethics, moral disagreement, moral realism, Morality, philosophy, public health ethics, the argument from disagreement, the washington post, W.D. Ross
“Moral values aren’t absolute, but aren’t arbitrary either” (reblog)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Reblogs on February 4, 2014
Originally posted on SelfAwarePatterns:
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) I’m working on another post with details about foundational moral instincts, but after some discussion on the ‘Morality arises from instincts‘ post, I realized that I failed to make a couple of things clear. So, I’m inserting this additional post to do that. First, let me clarify that,…
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Moral Twin Earth pt I (and the open question argument, Cornell realism, and the causal theory of reference)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics on January 1, 2014
One of the more reoccurring sci-fi plot devices is that of traveling to a “twin” earth, where persons are for the most part the same, except that different events have occurred; a recent heated debate in metaethics has been on what occurs when, stipulating that each party has discovered the objective moral truths of the […]
causal theory of reference, Cornell realism, earth, error theory, functionalism, G. E. Moore, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, goodness, Hilary Putnam, Mark Timmons, moral naturalism, moral realism, moral twin earth, naturalism vs non-naturalism, philosophical naturalism, philosophy, richard boyd, rightness, Saul Kripke, science fiction, semantics, sui generis, supervenience, synthetic property identities, the argument from disagreement, the naturalistic fallacy, the open question argument
Moral Naturalism and Non-Naturalism (and moral disagreement)
Posted by ausomeawestin in Metaethics, Morality on December 9, 2013
Note: I was working on an addition to my “About” page wherein I attempted to briefly state my meta-ethical views when I noticed that I had gotten carried away and written far more than was appropriate for the page. Thus I have decided to share it as a post. Among metaethical options, I think that […]
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