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Disagreements in moral intuition as defeaters

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People may disagree about moral issues because they have fundamentally different intuitions. I argue that we ought to suspend judgement in such cases. Since we trust our own moral intuitions without positive evidence of their reliability, we must necessarily extend this trust to the moral intuitions of others: a fundamental self-other asymmetry in moral epistemology is untenable. This ensures that disagreements in moral intuition are defeating. In addition, I argue that brute conflicts in mor...

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Peer reviewed

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10.1093/pq/pqw053

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Publisher's website
Journal:
Philosophical Quarterly Journal website
Volume:
67
Issue:
267
Pages:
282–302
Publication date:
2016-08-13
Acceptance date:
2016-05-20
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EISSN:
1467-9213
ISSN:
0031-8094
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pubs:625185
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uuid:6cd0fa61-45fa-4048-8ea4-5981f84722a5
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pubs:625185
Source identifiers:
625185
Deposit date:
2016-06-03

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