Antirealist views about morality claim that moral facts or truths do
not exist. Do these views imply that other types of normative facts,
such as epistemic ones, do not exist? The Normative Web develops a
positive answer to this question. Terence Cuneo argues that the
similarities between moral and epistemic facts provide excellent
reason to believe that, if moral facts do not exist, then epistemic
facts do not exist. But epistemic facts, it is argued, do exist: to
deny their existence would commit us to an extreme version of
epistemological skepticism. Therefore, Cuneo concludes, moral facts
exist. And if moral facts exist, then moral realism is true. In so
arguing, Cuneo provides not simply a defense of moral realism, but a
positive argument for it. Moreover, this argument engages with a wide
range of antirealist positions in epistemology such as error theories,
expressivist views, and reductionist views of epistemic reasons. If
the central argument of The Normative Web is correct, antirealist
positions of these varieties come at a very high cost. Given their
cost, Cuneo contends, we should find realism about both epistemic and
moral facts highly attractive.
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An Argument for Moral Realism
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ISBN
9780191614811
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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