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Moral perception, inference, and intuition

Authors :
Daniel Wodak
Source :
Philosophical Studies. 176:1495-1512
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.

Abstract

Sarah McGrath argues that moral perception has an advantage over its rivals in its ability to explain ordinary moral knowledge. I disagree. After clarifying what the moral perceptualist is and is not committed to, I argue that rival views are both more numerous and more plausible than McGrath suggests: specifically, I argue that (a) inferentialism can be defended against McGrath’s objections; (b) if her arguments against inferentialism succeed, we should accept a different rival that she neglects, intuitionism; and (c), reductive epistemologists can appeal to non-naturalist commitments to avoid McGrath’s counterexamples.

Details

ISSN :
15730883 and 00318116
Volume :
176
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Philosophical Studies
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........d56021ed8fc45663bbbfb7709760353d
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-019-01250-y