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Defusing the Regress Challenge to Debunking Arguments

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Abstracts A debunking argument contends that some target moral judgments were produced by unreliable processes and concludes that such judgments are unjustified. Debunking arguments face a regress challenge: to show… Click to show full abstract

Abstracts A debunking argument contends that some target moral judgments were produced by unreliable processes and concludes that such judgments are unjustified. Debunking arguments face a regress challenge: to show that a process is unreliable at tracking the moral truth, we need to rely on other moral judgments. But we must show that these relied-upon judgments are also reliable, which requires yet a further set of judgments, whose reliability needs to be confirmed too, and so on. Some argue that the debunker faces an insurmountable regress, which disables the debunking conclusion. In this paper, I explore and defuse this regress challenge.

Keywords: regress challenge; challenge; defusing regress; debunking arguments; challenge debunking

Journal Title: Canadian Journal of Philosophy
Year Published: 2020

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