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Morality and Epistemic Judgement - The Argument From Analogy (Hardcover)
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Morality and Epistemic Judgement - The Argument From Analogy (Hardcover)
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Moral judgments attempt to describe a reality that does not exist,
so they are all false. This is the moral error theory, a deeply
troubling yet plausible view that is now one of the canonical
positions in moral philosophy. The most compelling argument against
it is the argument from analogy. According to this, the moral error
theory should be rejected because it would seriously compromise our
practice of making epistemic judgments-judgments about how we ought
to form and revise our beliefs in light of our evidence-and could
undermine systematic thought and reason themselves. Christopher
Cowie provides a novel assessment of the recent attention paid to
this topic in moral philosophy and epistemology. He reasons that
the argument from analogy fails because moral judgments are unlike
judgments about how we ought to form and revise our beliefs in
light of our evidence. On that basis, a moral error theory does not
compromise the practice of making epistemic judgments. The moral
error theory may be true after all, Cowie concludes, and if it is
then we will simply have to live with its concerning consequences.
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