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Essays in Moral Skepticism (Hardcover)
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Essays in Moral Skepticism (Hardcover)
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Moral skepticism is the denial that there is any such thing as
moral knowledge. Some moral skeptics deny that moral judgments are
beliefs; some allow that moral judgments are beliefs but claim that
they are all untrue; others claim that all moral judgments are
unjustified. Since the publication of The Myth of Morality in 2001,
Richard Joyce has explored the terrain of moral skepticism and,
perhaps more than any other living philosopher, has been willing to
advocate versions of this radical view. Joyce's attitude toward
morality is analogous to an atheist's attitude toward religion: he
claims that in making moral judgments speakers attempt to state
truths (e.g., that breaking promises is usually wrong) but that the
world simply isn't furnished with the properties and relations
necessary to render such judgments true. Moral thinking, he argues,
probably emerged as a human adaptation, but one whose usefulness
derived from its capacity to bolster social cohesion rather than
its ability to track truths about the world. This forms the basis
of Joyce's 'evolutionary debunking argument,' according to which
evidence that a certain kind of judgment can be explained with no
reference to its truth may reveal those judgments to lack warrant.
Essays in Moral Skepticism gathers together a dozen of Joyce's most
significant papers from the last decade, following the developments
in his ideas, presenting responses to critics, and charting his
exploration of the complex landscape of modern moral skepticism.
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