Friday, 26 February 2016

Are Moral Facts Not Natural Facts? Everything Wrong with the Shafer-Landau Thesis

Are Moral Facts Not Natural Facts? Everything Wrong with the Shafer-Landau Thesis

Is moral truth a priori and not a natural property of the universe? So says Dr. Russ Shafer-Landau (as articulated in Whatever Happened to Good and Evil in 2003; and Moral Realism: A Defence in 2005). Even though I’m sympathetic to his project, he’s just wrong. And not merely wrong, but too obviously wrong for this to still be a thing in 21st century philosophy. Here I’ll explain why I think that.
Read more: http://snapzu.com/spaceghoti/are-moral-facts-not-natural-facts-everything-wrong-with-the-shafer-landau-thesis

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