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Whether there are moral facts

Whether there are moral facts

1.[3p]

Match each metaethical position to what it claims.

  • Moral realism

  • Subjectivism

  • Error theory

  • Expressivism

  • there are moral facts independent of anyone's attitudes

  • moral claims aim at objective facts and all fail

  • moral claims express attitudes rather than stating facts

  • moral claims state facts about someone's attitudes

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Moral realism: there are moral facts independent of anyone's attitudes Subjectivism: moral claims state facts about someone's attitudes Error theory: moral claims aim at objective facts and all fail Expressivism: moral claims express attitudes rather than stating facts

2.[3p]

What does Mackie's argument from relativity actually claim?

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The answer is: The pattern of moral variation is better explained by codes reflecting ways of life than by imperfect perception of an objective order
The answer is: The pattern of moral variation is better explained by codes reflecting ways of life than by imperfect perception of an objective order
The answer is: The pattern of moral variation is better explained by codes reflecting ways of life than by imperfect perception of an objective order

3.[3p]

Why is much apparent moral disagreement not disagreement in values?

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The answer is: The parties share a principle and differ about the facts to which it applies
The answer is: The parties share a principle and differ about the facts to which it applies
The answer is: The parties share a principle and differ about the facts to which it applies

4.[3p]

What would make a moral property queer, on Mackie's account?

Select all that apply

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The answer is: It would have to motivate anyone who perceived it, unlike ordinary facts, Knowing it would require a faculty unlike any other form of perception
The answer is: It would have to motivate anyone who perceived it, unlike ordinary facts, Knowing it would require a faculty unlike any other form of perception

5.[3p]

What is the Frege-Geach problem?

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The answer is: If a moral sentence expresses an attitude, it seems to mean something different when embedded in a conditional, which would make valid arguments equivocate
The answer is: If a moral sentence expresses an attitude, it seems to mean something different when embedded in a conditional, which would make valid arguments equivocate
The answer is: If a moral sentence expresses an attitude, it seems to mean something different when embedded in a conditional, which would make valid arguments equivocate

6.[3p]

What does Street's Darwinian dilemma press on the realist?

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The answer is: Selection explains our evaluative attitudes without reference to their truth, so the realist owes an account of why they would track moral facts
The answer is: Selection explains our evaluative attitudes without reference to their truth, so the realist owes an account of why they would track moral facts
The answer is: Selection explains our evaluative attitudes without reference to their truth, so the realist owes an account of why they would track moral facts

7.[2p]

On an error theory, "I may do as I please" comes out true.

The answer is: False
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8.[3p]

What is quasi-realism's programme?

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The answer is: Earning the right to talk like a realist, including about mistakes and mind-independence, from expressivist materials
The answer is: Earning the right to talk like a realist, including about mistakes and mind-independence, from expressivist materials
The answer is: Earning the right to talk like a realist, including about mistakes and mind-independence, from expressivist materials

9.[2p]

Whose 1977 book "Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong" set out the error theory?

CorrectNot quite: Mackie