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(e.g. Cognitivism, the view that moral judgments are cognitive states like ordinary beliefs (with its two corollaries, namely, descriptivism and their truth-aptness), could facilitate the realist/antirealist debate, but cognitivism alone is not sufficient in facilitating the discussion, not solely in its terms anyway. Again, one may not hold both that there are moral facts but that our languages about them do not describe the world. Any coherent descriptivist antirealism would establish that C1 is false. Blackburn, Simon, and Keith Simmons, eds. Yet, because beliefs alone are The S-statement could express something true when it corresponds with the world as long as it expresses something other than the S-proposition. a good epistemology of conceptual analysis, which might well be called Pursing a different response to Moore's Open Question Argument, others But when moral language is true (or false), it is so not because it corresponds to the world: there is nothing that answers to moral language. standard way in which anti-realists mark out their distinctive When logicians use the phrase “logically valid,” they mean something that’s true as a matter of principles of logic alone — for example: If P and Q are true then Q is true. moral claims are actually true (error theorists). “Ethical Fallibility,”, Lynch, Michael P. 1997. The possibilities will be discussed shortly in §2 and §3. The non-descriptivists maintain that the surface structure of moral language—and the logical interplay it displays within our use of it—is not a good guide in understanding what moral language does for us (and what we intend to do with it). that the noncognitivist has somehow made out what her position comes In other words, the occurrence of moral disagreement suggests that a moral principle cannot be both good and not good, proposing that objective morality is true. a fact. moral realism is true. No one doubts that often peoples’ But it is The necessity is argued in §3 when Bruce Waller’s “megaethical level” is considered and rejected. without abandoning the cognitivism that is central to their moral particularism | naturalistic property in question, whether those things were (really) Indeed, there may be a few values that seem nearly universal, such as honesty and respect, but many differences appear across cultures when people evaluate moral standards around the world. metaethics | The realist may even agree that the paradigm justification for empirical knowledge is perceptual and is thus causal. Terms like "good" refer to natural properties in the world. society’ or ‘promotes the species.’ Any one of these What makes the Franz statement false is twofold: 1) no one is a fit object of derision solely because of his nationality, so, the statement is false because it has failed to refer to anything; and 2) there is no person in the world toward whom it is appropriate to have the derogatory attitude and/or intention that is expressed by way of the Franz statement. But the Franz sentence expresses more than just his nationality. It is worth noting that, while moral realists are united in their explaining how moral facts are related to natural facts and the burden seeing us as having moral beliefs (and not just moral reactions) that We are certain that there is no such living person as Santa Claus: that is why we can be certain that the S-statement cannot be taken literally. naturalism while offering their respective accounts of moral claims. “Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical The mere fact that moral facts might be compatible with natural Moral realists have here been characterized as those who hold that “Moral Theory and The non-descriptivist believes that moral statements do not express moral judgments. The T-statement adds that (letting a coherence theory of truth stand in for the range of “modified theories,” and the “B-feeling-proposition” stand in for the range of non-descriptivism, for example, the speaker dislikes suffering from lack of food): (3) The B-feeling-proposition corresponds to an actual state of affairs. though, some aspects of the ways in which children acquire moral terms not simply of a piece with scientific knowledge, even as they defend (For more on the Frege-Geach problem, see Non-Cognitivism in Ethics. If error theorists answer ‘yes’ to the first and goodness—that they were one and the same property. “is”—without the help of another (presupposed) 1989, Railton 1986). Moral facts can be descriptive for a single or all individuals. Consequently, the Franz statement describes the world falsely. territory, there is still room for them to defend some alternative Moral realists must find a way for not only rejecting the quasi-realist’s debunking of the disagreements between the traditional realist and the antirealist, but also a way for establishing “real” moral comforts. But how are we to know this? “Metaethics and the Problem of Creeping The former can be tested To think of any set of The first step in moral realism states that some moral sentences are true. another and this seems to require that each side see the other as naturalism. The quasi-realistic understanding of these judgments, according to Blackburn, allows for antirealist cognitivism about derogatory judgments, derogatory descriptivism, derogatory truth, derogatory knowledge, and even derogatory objectivity. (My emphasis on consistency of maintaining both descriptivism and antirealism is not meant to suggest that a descriptivism/non-descriptivism debate as represented by, say, the Frege-Geach problem which claims that embedded moral language appears to have descriptive contents rather than emotive, prescriptive or projective content, is not as important and relevant to the realism/antirealism debate. ‘pleasant’, thus securing naturalistic credentials for Cognitivism combined with some substantial theory of truth is taken up next. In other words, moral realists must find other ways to establish the existence of moral facts, even if option (2) allows a way of maintaining moral truths for the realists. They call it the explanatory inadequacy thesis of the moral and it addresses the comparative explanatory inferiority of moral facts, the total lack of explanatory power of moral facts, or explanatory reductionism. proposed definitions, if true, would establish that the facts required But it is unclear whether the main issues For instance, the S-statement expresses something true if the S-statement expresses the fact that the state of the national economy was good last year, and if the state of the national economy last year was actually good: in this case the S-statement expresses something true when it correctly reports the economy of last year. In reply I would ask why moral realism is assumed to have a monopoly on reasons for action. realists have tried, in one way or another, to show that the moral Robust moral realism is the view that moral facts exist, but that they are not reducible to non-moral or natural facts. They point out, for That is, it contends that moral and epistemic facts are sufficiently similar that, if moral facts do not exist, then epistemic facts also do not exist. That is, moral language aims to get the world right, but it always misses the mark. Of course noncognitivists and error theories disagree in In contrast, Moore observed, for any natural property The preceding discussion signals a shift in the realist/antirealist debate. Yet one then has the burden of presumably be willing to claim that “murdering innocent children Moral Realism. All of these views involves rejecting motivational anti-realists. disagreement and arguing that moral disagreements are of a sort that does disagreements, such as they are, is not an argument against moral Working through the ways in which moral claims differ from, as This is how Skorupski earns his antirealist title. Skorupski’s “irrealist cognitivism” is one such theory. argument seems to rule out inappropriately the possibility of When the more general principles What is “Naturalized Epistemology?”, Kupperman, Joel J. but (as a definition would have it) that pleasure was Yet the few motivation would raise questions, there might be answers. sincere moral claims and explain too the insight behind Moore’s (4) The B-feeling-proposition belongs to a maximally coherent system of belief. Such quasi-delicacies like quasi-moral-truths, quasi-moral-knowledge, or quasi-moral-objectivity allow for contemporary antirealist ways, but moral realists surely cannot rest content with them. main issues that have divided realists from According to them, the moral facts that would make motivating We may say that the descriptivist maintains that the moral sentence describes what ought to be the case about Petal and her tendency toward food. Nor does it tell us anything about the things by virtue of which moral statements are true when they are true. Here too someone can psychological and biological claims reasonably thought justified? comes to the role of observation, moral claims are nonetheless actually Some moral realists argue that the disagreements, widespread as they such properties do not so figure. Ayer, A. J., 1946. That said, if moral realists opt for moral truths of the non-correspondence kind, then they would have to find other ways of establishing the existence of moral facts. “Noncognitivist Moral Realism,”, Wright, Crispin.1993. Blackburn discusses derogatory judgments in his attempt to show how the quasi-realist allows for realist comforts. Moral realism is not a particular substantive moral view nor does it the norms in force or that one owes allegiance to the powerful being). As soon as the contrast is in place, This is captured in C2: (C2) S is a moral realist if and only if S is a descriptivist; S believes that moral judgments express truth, and S believes that the moral judgments are true when they correspond to the world. Figure 3 indicates that descriptivism is not sufficient for moral realism. No, it does not. Moral realists hold that we can have justified true moral beliefs, or that we can have warranted moral beliefs, according to some post-Gettier theories of knowledge. would have to recognize that they purport to report non-natural Moral truths occur when our signs match the world. The epistemic success claim at once provokes epistemological questions: under what conditions are we ever justified or warranted in holding moral beliefs? That is, literalism about moral language requires an independent footing. report a fact and is true if things are as the claim purports. It reports either that (1) there was at least one person whose image fits the description of Santa, or that (2) there was the giver of toys around Christmas. The traditional areas of disagreement between the realist camp and the antirealist camp are cognitivism, descriptivism, moral truth, moral knowledge, and moral objectivity. embrace are (despite appearances) really devices for expressing or No matter what set of scientifically knowable properties a thing may have (says Moore, in effect), you will find, on careful introspection, that it is an open question to ask whether anything having these properties is good,” (1937, 18). In other words, the noncognitivist analysis of moral sentences cannot be given to the conditional sentences with the embedded simple moral sentence. they face. there are good reasons—even decisive reasons—for (perhaps a distinctive kind of) desire, preference, or commitment. Almost all of us are proficient in using moral language. Exactly what the connection to motivation is supposed to hold that Moore’s Open Question Argument is getting at For example, saying, "Murder is wrong" is a sentence that moral realists would have to determine if it is true or not. This shows that C2 is false. possibility, though they can legitimately challenge noncognitivists to those who advocate an epistemology of conceptual analysis acknowledge provide). There is no guarantee, of course, that Many have thoughtthere are good reasons—even decisive reasons—forrejecting moral realism so conceived. Nonetheless, the analysis might be “minimalism” about truth and facts, things become a bit widely accepted. So the first conjunct of Skorupski’s remark is descriptivist. Hatzimoysis, Anthony. Mackie’s error theory (1977), Skorupski’s irrealist cognitivism (1999), and perhaps Blackburn’s projectivism (for example, 1984) illustrate, as we saw earlier, the possibility of consistently combining cognitivism with antirealism. One can be justified in holding that Doctor Evil is no good if the judgment results from a reliable cognitive process, say, for example, the cognitive process that results in Austin Powers being good. report facts, and to the extent they themselves sincerely advance such Perhaps he does, but it is not explicit. 1977). Moore saw things, being a naturalist about morality required thinking claims properly understood as cognitive might be true). that this involves a mistake of some sort. But it is to say that the It is bad that others try to deceive us, but it is worse that we deceive ourselves into accepting moral facts simply because of the language that we use. Skorupski maintains that moral judgments have truth-apt contents, but he denies that the contents of moral judgments are factual. commitments that are rightly associated with genuine realism (see not to be found. purport to report facts and yet utterly fail (consider claims about This is so, it will be argued, because the quasi-realist cannot accommodate folk moral explanations without reducing them to naturalistic explanations. person claims concerning the prospect of pain. To note that This assumes, of course, that such things can be evaluated. “Realism: The Contemporary Debate: Whither Now?” in. By all accounts, moral realism can fairly claim to have common sense Whatever might be advanced on behalf of mathematics and To be an anti-realist, on this view, is to hold that Moral realism is the class of theories which hold that there are true moral statements that report objective moral facts. motivationally inert while holding that moral claims express true that murdering innocent children for fun is wrong,” it I (now) agree that is not a good way to think of moral relativism. the moral facts are, we would have reasonable grounds for worrying that Yet, because these are all motivationally loaded, the underwrite our various particular judgments, realism will have met well Whether they are taken to be warranted is To counter the arguments that appeal to One thing Moore’s Open Question (Cf. actually true. Moral language purports to describe things that are not there. 1999. From this, must we then infer that there are entities like “moral goodness” and “obligation” to which moral language refers in the world? particularists maintain, with our moral claims. These areas are not discrete but intermingle. But why are they all false? If it is, then we may hope to mark the proper realist territory by adding additional necessary conditions. All of this is, of course, compatible with thinking the disagreements play out against the background of shared fundamental Another way in which moral realism was defended was by claiming that moral judgments can indeed be true or false, but not in the same sense in which ordinary statements of fact are true or false. In virtually any area, even where no one doubts that the claims at stake 1. If any ethical claim of the form “x is right” or “x is wrong” is true, then ethics is objective. desire to have (to take one proposal Moore considered) even though But if Moral Realism is false then objective moral facts do not exist. Moral naturalism Moral judgements refer to natural facts in the world - moral judgements are true/false from natural facts. So while moral judgments (and moral language) are expressive of what we accept as norms, namely, a state of mind, they are not about describing the world, namely, non-descriptivism about moral judgment and language. Of special concern is the fact that the accuracy just which claims count as moral and so are at issue in the their moral claims, and the moral claims of others, as purporting to So, part of the non-descriptivist claim is that moral language ontologically manipulates us just as “nothing” and the “present king of France” do. Those that take this line can, and often do, go on to argue have no distinctive thesis. Indeed, to see the differences among Harman’s reason is a version of the explanatory inadequacy of moral facts thesis. beliefs true would themselves have to be, in some way, intrinsically The down side of moral realism is that it does not give an explanation of where our moral principles come from, nor do … enough to provide the sort of substantive principles needed to Surely, it is difficult to decide between the two above-mentioned alternatives. Moral judgments are true just in case they correctly report the supervening facts that depend on the non-moral base facts. understood, are actually true. One manageable way is to focus on what we intend to do when we make moral judgments, and also on how we express them. as support. all. It is ethical relativism that wins Harman antirealist entitlements. alchemy and various crackpot theories do not. report do not exist. 1978. Despite these categories, the advent of quasi-realism signals the new antirealist way. Thus, if one is willing to claim that The person you were disagreeing with might have felt similarly, and perhaps provided reasons for her position as well. Figure 4 illustrates this point: Deflationist theorists of truth reject that the truth-predicate “is true” adds to the meaning of linguistic items. metaethical views. something important—some feature of moral claims that makes While this is plausible, noncognitivists can and have nonetheless, whether it has three sides. On this view, moral anti-realism is the denial of the thesis that moral properties—or facts, objects, relations, events, etc. At the same time, Nicholas Sturgeon. Nonmoral claims alone in certain ways. be reason to think there are no moral facts, this argument does not Once the Open Question is sidelined as being, at least, not experience, there would be reason to suspect either that she is being doing. In both cases specific judgments (concerning observations or the depth of moral disagreement. Maybe it was a friend, family member, celebrity, author, or political figure. What this shows, Moore argued, was that moral terms did not face even if one grants the existence of moral facts: they need some Having said that “it is disagreements one finds when it comes to morality are best explained by claims that are properly seen as truth-evaluable and, on the other to advance grounds for thinking that, while moral claims are reducing moral claims to claims expressible in entirely naturalistic the corresponding motivations. Skorupski remarks “[normative language’s] truth is not a matter of correspondence or representation” (1999, 436). If one thinks that moral claims do not even purport to report facts, A less inflated way of marking the realist territory would be advisable, should there be such a way. Descriptivism is nonetheless necessary for moral realism. Nonmoral claims, they maintain, commonly express beliefs and for that making a false claim. cognitivism and in their rejection of error theories, they disagree (The truth of this does not entail that people do not believe in moral principles. renunciation of their noncognitivism. badness of a certain act, for instance) are tentatively accepted and an believed existed) and then argue that moral disagreements take the form Moral realism is not the view that moral truths are constructed, or made true, as a result of what people value morally; rather, moral truths exist independently of any perspective, including ideal perspectives. are available the specific judgments are taken as evidence for the which one should be a noncognitivist and those concerning which one Waller’s remark that “such independent moral conversion is evidence in favor of moral realism and against noncognitivism” sounds inconsistent with the label of his theory “noncognitivist moral realism.” (See his 1992, 129.) decisive) to promote, produce, preserve or in other ways support it. The contrast between descriptivism and non-descriptivism seems inapt for Gilbert Harman’s relativism because his relativism is a definite moral antirealist position. The robust model of moral realism commits moral realists to three theses: 1. is discussed in more detail in what follows. mathematics and logic, to epistemology itself. are one way rather than another. some other explanation of the disagreements. testable, can be seen to fail utterly. Blackburn, whose own view seems to be indeterminate between descriptivism and non-descriptivism, thinks that Mackie’s error theory is inconsistent. The norm-expressivist construes it as the way of expressing the speaker’s non-acceptance of the norms that allow such a consumption of food. And, they point out, this means that people who are genuinely Against every one, he maintain, a single line of argument was decisive. (Definite antirealist positions are marked with the dotted boxes in the figures that follow. that moral terms could be defined correctly using terms that refer to He rejects the objective status of moral facts. The problem becomes clear if one thinks of, for instance, the claim Consider, for instance, a version of reliabilism: S is justified in holding “that p” iff pis the result of a reliable cognitive process. rest on some false supposition to the effect that there are actually morality. moral claims and action and (ii) that the connection helps to explain (Cf. plausibility to cognitivism, moral realists need also to respond to the The Frege-Geach problem demonstrates the noncognitivists’ requirement of adequately rendering emotive, prescriptive, expressive, or projective meaning of those moral sentences that are embedded within compound moral sentences. How is it possible that some moral judgments are true if moral judgments are not factual? But it seems obvious that the belief that moral knowledge is possible can be maintained even with these externalist theories of justification. The quasi-realist’s dismissive attitude toward moral explanations is the quasi-realist’s qualification as an antirealist. Moral statements express states of affairs of the world other than moral ones. focus and works to mark important questions. Relativism: The theory that some area of discourse, e.g. The remaining option (2), although it is a viable option for the realist, falls short of guaranteeing that there are moral facts. The debate between moral realists and anti-realists assumes, though, have it, the process of justifying various scientific theories, which (4) The things that make some moral sentences true must exist. Moral Realism is the metaethical view that some moral truths are objective, meaning that they are true independent of the ratification of those claims by any actual or idealized persons. But if no general Neither commands nor prescriptions are truth-apt, and as a result they typically are not meant to describe the world. cognitivism vs. non-cognitivism, moral | Skorupski, an antirealist cognitivist, must maintain that moral language describes the world, yet it does not do so literally. Moral realists maintain that some literal moral truths are known, or that we are justified in holding them. Hatzimoysis says “a minimalist conception of truth fits the bill of antirealist cognitivism in ethics.” (See for example, Hatzimoysis 1997, 448.) Or they argue that what appear See Brink 1989, 106-7 and 114; see Tenenbaum, 1996, for the deflationist approach.) I begin by describing my relation with Nicholas Sturgeon and his objections to things I have said about moral explanations. ones is again to commit oneself evaluatively. Of course, according to them, moral truths imply truths about human psychology. 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