Evolutionary Debunking of Moral Realism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4965307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katia Vavova (Mount Holyoke College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 104-116 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/phc3.12194 |
| OpenAlex | W1512166434 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 43 |
| References cited | 23 |
Evolutionary debunking arguments move from a premise about the influence of evolutionary forces on our moral beliefs to a skeptical conclusion about those beliefs. My primary aim is to clarify this empirically grounded epistemological challenge. I begin by distinguishing among importantly different sorts of epistemological attacks. I then demonstrate that instances of each appear in the literature under the 'evolutionary debunking' title. Distinguishing them clears up some confusions and helps us better understand the structure and potential of evolutionary debunking arguments
Biology · Epistemology · Evolutionary ecology · Evolutionary neuroscience · Evolutionary theory · Moral psychology · Moral realism · Premise · Realism · Skepticism · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Ecology
Eliminativism and Evolutionary Debunking
The Perils of Rejecting the Parity Argument
Debunking Arguments in Ethics
The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking
Contingency, Sociality, and Moral Progress
Death as the extinction of the source of value
No need to get up from the armchair (if you’re interested in debunking arguments in metaethics)
Relying on Intuitions in Moral and Political Philosophy
Proper Function and Ethical Judgment Towards A Biosemantic Theory of Ethical Thought and Discourse
A moral critique of psychological debunking
Defusing the Regress Challenge to Debunking Arguments
Three problems for the evolutionary debunking argument
Speciesism and tribalism
A Bayesian analysis of debunking arguments in ethics
The limits of rational belief revision
Moral knowledge and the existence of god
Genealogical undermining for conspiracy theories
Strangers to ourselves
The challenge of heritability
How to be a compatibilist in metaphysics
Toward a Perceptual Solution to Epistemological Objections to Nonnaturalism
The Debunking Challenge to Moral Realism
An explanationist account of genealogical defeat
Irrelevant Influences
Evolutionary Debunking Arguments Meet Evolutionary Science
Why undermining evolutionary debunkers is not enough
Evolutionary debunking of (arguments for) moral realism
Indoctrination anxiety and the etiology of belief
In what sense is evolution blind to moral truth
How can we come to know metaphysical modal truths
Evolutionary debunking arguments and the explanatory scope of natural selection
Undermining versus rebutting
An integrative design? How liberalised modal empiricism fails the integration challenge
The co-evolution of virtue and desert
Third factor explanations and disagreement in metaethics
Two epistemological challenges regarding hypothetical modeling
How Gene-Culture Coevolution can-but Probably did not-Track Mind-Independent Moral Truth
The Aptness of Envy
A Moral Fine-Tuning Argument
Moral perception
Debunking arguments
Theistic Arguments from Horrendous Evils
Recent work on reflective equilibrium and method in ethics
Ethics
Taking Morality Seriously
The Philosophy of Philosophy
A Darwinian Dilemma for Realist Theories of Value
Constructivism about Reasons
Mathematical Truth
The epistemological challenge to metanormative realism
Evolution and the Normativity of Epistemic Reasons
Evolutionary Debunking, Moral Realism and Moral Knowledge
Darwin and moral realism
The moral fixed points
Objectivity and Truth
| Unique citing works | 43 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |