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Devitt on Moral Realism

Boran Berčić

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In this article the author criticizes Michael Devitt's Naturalistic Moral Realism, as well as that program in general. The author argues the following: moral explanations do not work; the fact that moral features supervene on the non-moral ones does not support the thesis of Realism; moral principles can not be tested like factual ones; Moral Realists Naturalists water down their thesis so much that it ceases to be a form of realism; there are no moral observations in any interesting sense.

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In this article the author criticizes Michael Devitt's Naturalistic Moral Realism, as well as that program in general. The author argues the following: moral explanations do not work; the fact that moral features supervene on the non-moral ones does not support the thesis of Realism; moral principles can not be tested like factual ones; Moral Realists Naturalists water down their thesis so much that it ceases to be a form of realism; there are no moral observations in any interesting sense.

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In this article the author criticizes Michael Devitt's Naturalistic Moral Realism, as well as that program in general. The author argues the following: moral explanations do not work; the fact that moral features supervene on the non-moral ones does not support the thesis of Realism; moral principles can not be tested like factual ones; Moral Realists Naturalists water down their thesis so much that it ceases to be a form of realism; there are no moral observations in any interesting sense.

Key concepts: Moral realism, Epistemology, Realism, Moral psychology, Naturalism, Philosophy, Moral disengagement, Philosophical realism

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