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Explaining our Moral Reliability

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PACIFIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY
Volume 98, Issue -, Pages 71-86

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/papq.12153

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I critically examine an evolutionary debunking argument against moral realism. The key premise of the argument is that there is no adequate explanation of our moral reliability. I search for the strongest version of the argument; this involves exploring how adequate explanation' could be understood such that the key premise comes out true. Finally, I give a reductio: in the sense in which there is no adequate explanation of our moral reliability, there is equally no adequate explanation of our inductive reliability. Thus, the argument that would debunk our moral views would also, absurdly, debunk all inductive reasoning.

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