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dc.contributor.authorKhlentzos, Drew Michaelen
local.source.editorEditor(s): David K Chanen
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-18T16:21:00Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.citationMoral Psychology Today: Essays on Values, Rational Choice and the Will, p. 17-36en
dc.identifier.isbn9781402068713en
dc.identifier.isbn1402068719en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/2228-
dc.description.abstractThis paper argues that naturalistic moral realism is vulnerable to a 'Hard Problem' that has gone largely unrecognised. This problem is to explain how natural moral properties are detected by the folk. I argue that Thomas Nagel's persuasive case for moral realism founded on the priority of first-order moral evaluations over second-order reflection is not conclusive - a certain type of moral agnosticism which I call Meta-Ethical Pyrrhonism can account for our inability to think of first-order moral evaluations as merely subjective or relative. Although unsatisfactory as metaphysics, Meta-Ethical Pyrrhonism is arguably all that a moral naturalist is entitled to by way of a meta-ethical theory.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.ispartofMoral Psychology Today: Essays on Values, Rational Choice and the Willen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhilosophical Studies Seriesen
dc.relation.isversionof1en
dc.titleMoral Realism, Meta-Ethical Pyrrhonism and Naturalismen
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.subject.keywordsEthical Theoryen
local.contributor.firstnameDrew Michaelen
local.subject.for2008220305 Ethical Theoryen
local.subject.seo2008970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciencesen
local.identifier.epublicationsvtls086508845en
local.profile.schoolSchool of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emaildkhlentz@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryB1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordpes:6778en
local.publisher.placeLondon, United Kingdomen
local.identifier.totalchapters13en
local.format.startpage17en
local.format.endpage36en
local.series.number110en
local.contributor.lastnameKhlentzosen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:dkhlentzen
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:2300en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleMoral Realism, Meta-Ethical Pyrrhonism and Naturalismen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://books.google.com.au/books?id=RDq5C-rJ7oIC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA17en
local.relation.urlhttp://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an43061131en
local.relation.urlhttp://www.springer.com/philosophy/ethics/book/978-1-4020-6871-3en
local.search.authorKhlentzos, Drew Michaelen
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local.year.published2008en
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