Meaning, moral realism, and the importance of morality
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-018-1198-0
Abstract: Many philosophers have suspected that the normative importance of morality depends on moral realism. In this paper, I defend a version of this suspicion: I argue that if teleological forms of moral realism, those that… read more here.
Keywords: importance morality; morality meaning; moral realism; realism ... See more keywords
Bad bootstrapping: the problem with third-factor replies to the Darwinian Dilemma for moral realism
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-019-01301-4
Abstract: Street’s (Philos Stud 127:109–166, 2006 ) “Darwinian Dilemma” is a well-known epistemological objection to moral realism. In this paper, I argue that “third-factor” replies to this argument on behalf of the moral realist, as popularized… read more here.
Keywords: third factor; darwinian dilemma; factor replies; moral realism ... See more keywords
Can the empirical sciences contribute to the moral realism/anti-realism debate?
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1434-8
Abstract: An increasing number of moral realists and anti-realists have recently attempted to support their views by appeal to science. Arguments of this kind (such as evolutionary debunking arguments or arguments from moral disagreement) are typically… read more here.
Keywords: moral realism; sciences contribute; anti realism; empirical sciences ... See more keywords
The epistemology of evolutionary debunking
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-021-03327-w
Abstract: Fifteen years ago, Sharon Street and Richard Joyce advanced evolutionary debunking arguments against moral realism, which purported to show that the evolutionary history of our moral beliefs makes moral realism untenable. These arguments have since… read more here.
Keywords: epistemology evolutionary; evolutionary debunking; moral realism; epistemology ... See more keywords
On Global Power Differentials, Moral Realism, and the Rise of China: A Review Essay
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DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2020.1744392
Abstract: ABSTRACT This review essay examines the recent theoretical contribution of Yan Xuetong—China’s most cited political scientist—on ‘Moral Realism’ as it is presented in his latest magnum opus: ‘Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers.’ The… read more here.
Keywords: china; moral realism; review essay; rise ... See more keywords
IR Moral Realism’s Epistemology
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DOI: 10.1177/0974928420917797
Abstract: Leadership and the Rise of Great Powers received 16 book reviews within 6 months of its publication. Among them, the one by Professor Rajesh Rajagopalan (which appeared in the India Quarterly, 75:3) is the most… read more here.
Keywords: epistemology; realism epistemology; moral realism;
Reply to Wilson Mendonça’s “Supervenience arguments against robust moral realism”
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DOI: 10.4013/fsu.2019.203.07
Abstract: In his “Supervenience arguments against robust moral realism”, Wilson Mendonca sets out to defend robust moral realism (the thesis that moral properties are not identical to natural properties) against the Explanatory Argument based on Supervenience.… read more here.
Keywords: moral realism; supervenience; robust moral; supervenience arguments ... See more keywords