Today Dr. Dan Korman and Noah McKay join me to discuss evolutionary debunking arguments. Can our moral beliefs survive skeptical threats?
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OUTLINE
0:00 Intro
1:40 Debunking arguments
6:22 Three kinds of debunking arguments
14:43 Telic debunking argument
22:05 Explanationist pushback
38:51 Swampman pushback
59:51 New function pushback
1:16:45 Dan’s favored approach
1:25:01 Concluding thoughts
RESOURCES
(1) Dan’s website (with his papers): https://danielzkorman.weebly.com/
(2) Noah’s website (with his papers): https://noahdmckay.wordpress.com/
(3) Dan’s paper, "Debunking Arguments", https://philarchive.org/archive/KORDA-2
(4) Dan’s paper, “An explanationist Account of Genealogical Defeat“, https://philpapers.org/rec/KORAEA-4
(5) Noah’s paper, “Can Rational Reflection Save Moral Knowledge from Debunking?”, https://philpapers.org/rec/MCKCRR
(6) Noah’s paper, “Moral knowledge and the existence of God”, https://philpapers.org/rec/MCKMKA
(7) My Metaethics playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkbIsKrv640jcBmNCFbU-ZQy
(8) 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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