Metaethical Mooreanism and Evolutionary Debunking

Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 92:271-284 (2018)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

In this paper I will apply the Moorean response to external world skepticism to moral skepticism, specifically to the evolutionary debunking argument against morality. I begin, in section 1, with a discussion of Mooreanism. In section 2, I proceed to a discussion of metaethical Mooreanism, which is the view that some moral facts are Moorean facts. In section 3 I apply metaethical Mooreanism to the evolutionary debunking argument against morality. If the arguments of the paper hold up it will turn out that it is no more rational to abandon the existence of moral facts than it is to deny that one knows that one has hands.

Author's Profile

Jonathan Fuqua
Conception Seminary College

Analytics

Added to PP
2020-09-18

Downloads
88 (#101,458)

6 months
34 (#102,606)

Historical graph of downloads since first upload
This graph includes both downloads from PhilArchive and clicks on external links on PhilPapers.
How can I increase my downloads?