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Moral perception, inference, and intuition
- Source :
- Philosophical Studies. 176:1495-1512
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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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.
- Subjects :
- Philosophy of mind
Philosophy
05 social sciences
Appeal
Metaphysics
Inference
06 humanities and the arts
0603 philosophy, ethics and religion
050105 experimental psychology
Epistemology
Philosophy of language
Intuitionism
060302 philosophy
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Moral perception
Counterexample
Subjects
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