Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Moral and Political Group Talk / Russ Shafer-Landau (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - Talk Title: "Genealogical Critiques of Moral Realism"
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Mar 09, 2012 from 04:15 PM to 06:00 PM |
| Where | JHB 418 |
| Contact Name | Prof. Andrew Sepielli |
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"Genealogical Critiques of Moral Realism"
ABSTRACT: There has recently been a set of sharp criticisms directed against moral realism. These criticisms all have the same form: given realism, and given what we know about the evolutionary origins of our moral faculties -- roughly, whatever interconnected, internal mechanisms and processes lead us to have the moral beliefs we do -- there is no reason to think that these faculties are reliable, and plenty of reason to think that they are not. I reconstruct what I take to be the central line of reasoning behind a variety of such critiques, and then try to undermine these critiques.
