Ethical Pragmatism |
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Authors: | Raff Donelson |
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Affiliation: | Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center and Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA |
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Abstract: | Beginning with a thought experiment about a mysterious Delphic oracle, this article motivates, explains, and attempts to defend a view it calls Ethical Pragmatism. Ethical Pragmatism is the view that we can and should carry on our practice of moral deliberation without reference to moral truths, or more broadly, without reference to metaethics. The defense the article mounts tries to show that neither suspicions about the tenability of fact‐value distinctions, nor doubts about the viability of global pragmatism, nor worries about the “force” of ethical injunctions without reference to moral truths constitute good reason to reject Ethical Pragmatism. |
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Keywords: | expressivism metaethical internalism metaethics moral realism moral truth pragmatism Richard Rorty |
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