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Mapping metaethics (with Lance Bush)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Argument for Moral Quietism

David Wheeler: I reject the uniformity and determinacy assumption, which is that when people make moral claims they tend to be attempting to make the same moral claims as one another. In my own research, I've started to suspect that the reason why we get the kind of empirical results we get when we go out when we ask people questions about meta-ethics isn't because ofmeta-ethical pluralism. He says it's not really a substantive feature of the way that people speak and think about morality in the first place.Wheeler: What would you think of the claim that there's a certain type of usage that's really what we're talking about when we talk about morality?

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