NDLI: Revisiting Folk Moral Realism

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Author	Pölzler, Thomas
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Moral realists believe that there are objective moral truths. According to one of the most prominent arguments in favour of this view, ordinary people experience morality as realist-seeming, and we have therefore prima facie reason to believe that realism is true. Some proponents of this argument have claimed that the hypothesis that ordinary people experience morality as realist-seeming is supported by psychological research on folk metaethics. While most recent research has been thought to contradict this claim, four prominent earlier studies (by Goodwin and Darley, Wainryb et al., Nichols, and Nichols and Folds-Bennett) indeed seem to suggest a tendency towards realism. My aim in this paper is to provide a detailed internal critique of these four studies. I argue that, once interpreted properly, all of them turn out in line with recent research. They suggest that most ordinary people experience morality as “pluralist-” rather than realist-seeming, i.e., that ordinary people have the intuition that realism is true with regard to some moral issues, but variants of anti-realism are true with regard to others. This result means that moral realism may be less well justified than commonly assumed.
Starting Page	455
Ending Page	476
Page Count	22
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18785158
Journal	Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18785166
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-03-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Philosophy of Mind Cognitive Psychology Neurosciences Epistemology Developmental Psychology Philosophy of Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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