For people interested in moral philosophy, this is a great conversation about a view called moral realism. My only problem is that Loeb and Railton both seem to assume that if moral propositions are truth-apt (can be true or false), then they must refer to entities or properties that belong to a mind-independent world. However, there is a family of metaethical views called 'cognitive irrealism' which claims that moral propositions can be truth-apt without referring to intrinsically normative features of the world. In any case, this video is an excellent introduction to metaethics for the non-specialist.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Metaethics 101
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Very interesting. I'm going to have to sit down and listen to it more in-depth when I get home, as I can only give half an ear to it at work.
Thanks for the link.
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