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The Moral Realism of Pragmatic Naturalism
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William Rottschaefer
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February 11, 2016
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In his The Ethical Project, Philip Kitcher offers a pragmatic naturalistic account of moral progress, rejecting a moral realist one. I suggest a moral realist account of moral progress that embraces Kitcher’s pragmatic naturalism and calls on moral realism to show how the pragmatic account is successful. To do so I invoke a hypothesis about moral affordances and make use of a cognitive account of emotions.
Published Online: 2016-02-11
Published in Print: 2012-05-01
© 2012 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
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