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Reconstruction in Moral Philosophy?
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Matthew Braddock
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February 11, 2016
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We raise throe issues for Kitcher’s Ethical Project: First, we argue that the genealogy of morals starts well before the advent of altruism-failures and the need to remedy them, which Kitcher dates at about 50K years ago. Second, we challenge the likelihood of long term moral progress of the sort Kitcher requires to establish objectivity while circumventing Hume's challenge to avoid trying to derive normative conclusions from positive ones ‘ought’ from ‘is’. Third, we sketch ways in which Kitcher’s mctacthical opponents could respond to his arguments against them.
Published Online: 2016-02-11
Published in Print: 2012-05-01
© 2012 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
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- Précis of The Ethical Project
- The Ethical Project. A Dialogue
- The Golden Age of the Campfire: Should We Take Our Ancestors Seriously?
- Deus Ex Machina: A Cautionary Tale for Naturalists
- Reconstruction in Moral Philosophy?
- The Open-ended Normativity of the Ethical
- Morality’s Dark Past
- Kitcher’s Revolutionary Reasoning Inversion in Ethics
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- The Moral Realism of Pragmatic Naturalism
- Genealogies of Ethics
- Afterthoughts. Reply to Comments
- Authors
