Or so the reference magnetist claims.One way of understanding Horgan & Timmons' famous Moral Twin Earth argument is in the following way. It seems to us that Earthers and Moral Twin Earthers disagree in a substantive way. But if metaethical...
May 20, 2020
23 min
Among the moral realists there are moral non-naturalists as well and moral naturalists. The former claim, unsurprisingly, that morality does not reduce to natural facts or properties. The latter, on the other hand, claim that such a reduction (or a set...
May 5, 2020
15 min
J.L. Mackie argued that moral sentences express beliefs but also that every such belief is false. This view is known as error theory, which has it that people are systematically mistaken about the truth of their moral beliefs. Mackie infamously...
Apr 27, 2020
15 min
In this episode, I discuss challenges to both Moore's Open Question Argument and to emotivist (non-cognitivist, more generally) metaethical theories. In response to the OQA, I develop a well known challenge that can be captured in slogan form: not all...
Apr 19, 2020
16 min
Philosophers like A.J. Ayer and Charles Stevenson argued that at least a major function of ethical language is for speakers to express emotions, not for speakers to express beliefs about the world. In this episode, I discuss Ayer's pure emotivism, his...
Apr 10, 2020
16 min
In his metaethical treatise Principia Ethica, G.E. Moore argued, among other things, that goodness is the foundation of ethics and thus of ethical theory. But he also argued that 'good' can't admit of definition and that the property of goodness is an...
Apr 4, 2020
13 min