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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Evolutionary debunking"”.
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The Epistemic Limits of Evolutionary Debunking: An Evaluation of Evolutionary Arguments Against Moral Realism
<p>Evolutionary debunking arguments contend that the evolutionary origins of moral belief undermine the epistemic standing of moral realism. Sharon Street's Darwinian Dilemma and Richard Joyce's genealogical undercutting argument represent the two most influential formulations of this challenge. …
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The Debunking Project. Developing a Framework for the Scope and Requirements of Successful Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
… the theoretical and empirical foundations of Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (EDAs), a critical philosophical type of argument used to challenge realist positions across various domains, notably morality. The dissertation systematically analyzes how EDAs function, what they require as minimal …
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Darwinian humility : epistemological applications of evolutionary science
I use evolutionary science - its tenets and theory, as well as the evidence for it - to investigate the extent and nature of human knowledge by exploring the relation between human cognition, epistemic luck, and biological and cultural fitness. In "The Epistemic Upshot of Adaptationist …
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Seeing Right from Wrong: A Defense of A Posteriori Ethical Intuitionism
… I</p> <p>begin by defending an understanding of evolutionary debunking arguments according</p> <p>to which the problem is grounded in a lack of epistemic access to sui generis, non-causal</p> <p>moral facts. Next, I argue that even the most sophisticated versions of reflective</p> <p>equilibrium …
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The Problem of Epistemically Irrelevant Causal Factors
<p>The problem of epistemically irrelevant causal factors is an epistemological phenomenon that occurs when a person becomes aware of some non-epistemic, causal factor that threatens to adversely influence her present belief, yet this factor is irrelevant to her deliberation concerning that belief. …