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A Defense of Mackie's Moral Error Theory: Essays on the Argument from Queerness and Formulation Problems
… and Wrong, J. L. Mackie argues that, while our moral claims point “to something objectively prescriptive,” no such things exist and thus “these claims are all false” (Mackie 1977). A number of issues with Mackie's articulation of “moral error theory” have cast doubt on the view. This work …
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Error theory after J.L Mackie: Contemporary error theorists’ arguments
… will be exploring the arguments in favour of moral error theory, which is the metaethical theory that refers to moral statements as erroneous. Error theory relies on the idea that moral statements aim towards the truth, but as there are no moral properties that exist, so moral statements are …