Unbelievable doubts (and other skeptical discoveries)
| dc.contributor.author | Faerber, Jonathan | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Woodcock, Scott | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-01T14:41:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-05-01T14:41:46Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2017 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-05-01 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Philosophy | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Moral skeptics sometimes argue that science is at odds with morality. These arguments sometimes privilege scientific explanations of moral belief at the expense of objective moral knowledge. More specifically, since morality is (arguably) a biological adaptation involving belief, Richard Joyce and Sharon Street doubt the justification and objective truth of moral belief, respectively. This thesis defends objective normative facts from this empirical problem. Reasons for moral skepticism are not compatible with arguments against objective normativity. Put simply, without objective normativity, skeptics have no ultimate reason to doubt anything in particular, moral or otherwise. So, on pain of incoherence, moral skeptics should doubt the truth, rather than the objective normativity, of moral belief. | en_US |
| dc.description.proquestcode | 0422 | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/8026 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/ | * |
| dc.subject | Normativity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Meta-ethics | en_US |
| dc.subject | Moral realism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Skepticism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Epistemology | en_US |
| dc.subject | Belief | en_US |
| dc.title | Unbelievable doubts (and other skeptical discoveries) | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |