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107 | Russ Shafer-Landau on the Reality of Morality

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Constructivist's Commitment to Morality

I think that the constructivist has to bite the bullet about the fact that even in good faith either individuals or groups of individuals societies might end up constructing versions of morality that I find deeply distasteful. One important reason to hold the sort of non-naturalist you I do and it's the one that sets it up for criticism, he says. "The naturalist will will go out and say yeah we can do experiments of a kind because moral facts are just a species of natural fact"

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