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A new argument for moral error theory
Noûs, 2020 AbstractTraditional arguments for moral error theory are based on identifying a problem with the metaphysics of moral properties. I provide a new argument that is based on the inconsistency of first‐order moral judgments. I illustrate this using impossibility results in population axiology.
Christopher Cowie, Cowie, Christopher
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Moral Error Theory and the Argument from Epistemic Reasons [PDF]
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2017 In this paper I defend what I call the argument from epistemic reasons against the moral error theory. I argue that the moral error theory entails that there are no epistemic reasons for belief and that this is bad news for the moral error theory since, if there are no epistemic reasons for belief, no one knows anything.
Richard Rowland +2 more
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Richard Joyce’s Argument by Elimination for Moral Error Theory
International Journal for the Study of SkepticismAbstract In Morality: From Error to Fiction , Richard Joyce argues that ordinary moral discourse is committed to the existence of ontologically robust moral facts, on the basis that ordinary speakers consider moral belief to be a sincerity condition of moral judgement.
Sinclair, Neil
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Overconsumption, Procreation, and Morality
Ethics in Progress, 2014 Thomas Young (2001) argues that overconsumption and procreation are morally equivalent, and thus that anyone who disapproves of overconsumption must arrive at the same normative judgment concerning procreation (or procreation beyond a certain threshold).
John Mariana
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If You Can Understand This Essay, Then You Have Moral Rights and Moral Duties
Open Philosophy, 2020 Alan Gewirth’s work on moral and political philosophy attracted a great deal of attention between 1978 and 2000, but has received very little attention since then.
White Alan
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Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2023 In this article, I present a two-pronged argument for the immorality of contemporary, asymmetric drone warfare, based on my new interpretations of the just war principles of “proportionality” and “moral equivalence of combatants” (MEC).
Joshua M. Hall
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The false promise of the better argument [PDF]
, 2011 Effective argumentation in international politics is widely conceived as a matter of persuasion. In particular, the ‘logic of arguing’ ascribes explanatory power to the ‘better argument’ and promises to illuminate the conditions of legitimate ...
Tine Hanrieder, Hanrieder, Tine
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Naturalistic Moral Realism and Evolutionary Biology
Philosophies, 2021 Perhaps the most familiar understanding of “naturalism” derives from Quine, understanding it as a continuity of empirical theories of the world as described through the scientific method.
Paul Bloomfield
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The problem of moral luck: An argument against its epistemic reduction [PDF]
, 2009 Whom I call 'epistemic reductionists' in this article are critics of the notion of 'moral luck' that maintain that all supposed cases of moral luck are illusory; they are in fact cases of what I describe as a special form of epistemic luck, the only ...
A. Schinkel +4 more
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Is calibration a fairness requirement?
2022 ACM Conference on Fairness Accountability and Transparency, 2022 In this paper, we provide a moral analysis of two criteria of statistical fairness debated in the machine learning literature: 1) calibration between groups and 2) equality of false positive and false negative rates between groups. In our paper, we focus on moral arguments in support of either measure. The conflict between group calibration vs.
Michele Loi, Christoph Heitz
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