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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"moral epistemology"”.
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Coherentism in moral epistemology: moral science or elaborate intuitionism?
: Moral foundationalists maintain that among our moral beliefs there are some that are justified non-inferentially by something other than just more beliefs. Also, that all of the other beliefs in the system can trace their chain of justification back to members of this special ‘epistemically …
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A Feminist Defense of Moderate Moral Intuitionism
… are concerned with the epistemic status of moral intuitions. The first article argues in favour of moderate moral intuitionism, the view that while any successful moral epistemology must be intuitionist to at least some extent, it must also take intuitions to be fallible. This is …
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Evolution And Ethics
… and on that basis draw conclusions about moral epistemology. However, if Darwinism is to be offered as a premise from which conclusions about moral epistemology are drawn, in order to assess such arguments we must assess that premise. This reveals the highly speculative and metaphysical …
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Knowing Better, Reasoning Together
… the novel conclusion that it is harder to have moral knowledge than non-moral knowledge due to the fact that moral beliefs have more practically at stake. More specifically, in chapter 1 I argue that moral beliefs are subject to a higher epistemic standard than non-moral beliefs. Roughly, …
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How Morality Seems: A Cognitive Phenomenal Case for Moral Realism
… it would have important consequences for moral epistemology – how we come to know the moral truths we seem to know. I argue that adopting cognitive phenomenology and the epistemic principle of phenomenal conservatism can do “double duty” for the moral realist: they provide the moral …
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"Moral perception": an examination and revision
… theorists have advanced what seems to be a novel moral epistemology or explanation of how it is that agents come to form moral beliefs and acquire moral knowledge. Known to this point simply as “moral perception,” this view claims that it is possible to “perceive” moral facts in much the same way …
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Moses Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas on the Good Life: From the Fall to Human Perfectibility
… to exploit their accounts of the human Fall, moral perfection, and ultimate human perfection—the knowledge of God.<br/>The medieval positions initially face similar problems marking Aristotle’s account, making the good life seem virtually elusive as both are challenged sometimes in more acute …
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The Epistemic Limits of Evolutionary Debunking: An Evaluation of Evolutionary Arguments Against Moral Realism
… 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. This project subjects both to …
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Moral expertise and moral education : a Socratic account
… answer to them. In Chapter 1 ("Virtue as Expert Moral Knowledge") I develop and defend a novel interpretation of the Socratic thesis that virtue is a kind of knowledge. I argue that the relevant kind of knowledge of interest to Socrates is expert moral knowledge or moral expertise-a complex …
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Seeing Right from Wrong: A Defense of A Posteriori Ethical Intuitionism
… the claim that our epistemic access to</p> <p>moral properties is grounded in a posteriori perceptual experiences. It is divided into</p> <p>two parts. In part I, I present the epistemic access problem for realist moral</p> <p>epistemology, and then argue against several a priori attempts to …
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A Review of the Principal Questions in Richard Price’s Moral Intuitionism
… theory assumes, at minimum, the following: 1) Moral claims can be true stance independently, or, in other words, morality exists independently of our whims, beliefs, or desires, 2) There are moral truths that can be discovered through some rationalist capacity (be it “intuition” or “the …
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Imaginative Simulation in the Moral Life
… and so on). My thesis suggests that analytic moral philosophy would benefit from a sustained consideration of the role that imaginative simulation plays in our moral thinking. Indeed, it is because imaginative simulation involves the same critical sensorimotor, perceptual, affective, and …