What are debunking arguments? How are they defended? And how are they attacked? Does the evolutionary debunking argument against moral realism work? Here I explore these questions and more.
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OUTLINE
0:00 Intro
2:00 Debunking arguments
3:05 Varieties of debunking arguments
11:22 Structure of debunking arguments
17:49 Explanatory premise
19:30 Epistemic premise
21:01 Categories of response
23:35 Explanationist responses
24:57 Alethic
28:29 Doxastic
29:42 Minimalist responses
31:37 Indirect defense
33:56 Unstable minimalism
35:35 Stable minimalism
39:33 Third factor response
44:03 Plenitudinist response
46:00 Direct defense
55:55 Overgeneralization responses
58:32 Moorean responses
1:02:49 Summary
1:04:17 Flowchart
1:09:29 Conclusion
RESOURCES
(1) Korman (2019), "Debunking Arguments", https://philarchive.org/archive/KORDA-2
(2) Dan Korman's other papers on debunking arguments can be found here: https://danielzkorman.weebly.com/papers-and-books.html
(2) Wielenberg (2016), "Ethics and Evolutionary Theory", https://philpapers.org/rec/WIEEAE-4
(3) My Metaethics playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkbIsKrv640jcBmNCFbU-ZQy
(4) My Springer book: (a) https://www.amazon.com/Existential-Inertia-Classical-Theistic-Proofs-ebook/dp/B0BNMHRW63 (b) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-19313-2
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