Causal Impotence and Evolutionary Influence: Epistemological Challenges for Non-Naturalism
Two epistemological critiques of non-naturalism are not always carefully distinguished. According to the Causal Objection, the fact that moral properties cannot cause our moral beliefs implies that it would be a coincidence if many of them were true. According to the Evolutionary Objection, the fact...
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2016, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 379-395 |
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B Evolutionary debunking B Hartry Field B moral epistemology B Sharon Street |
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