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- Title
SENSIBILITY THEORY AND CONSERVATIVE COMPLANCENCY.
- Authors
ROSS, PETER W.; TURNER, DALE
- Abstract
In Ruling Passions, Simon Blackburn contends that we should reject sensibility theory because it serves to support a conservative complacency. Blackburn's strategy is attractive in that it seeks to win this metaethical dispute – which ultimately stems from a deep disagreement over antireductionism – on the basis of an uncontroversial normative consideration. Therefore, Blackburn seems to offer an easy solution to an apparently intractable debate. We will show, however, that Blackburn's argument against sensibility theory does not succeed; it is no more supportive of conservative complacency than Blackburn's noncognitivism. A victory for noncognitivism cannot be so easily won.
- Subjects
COGNITIVE learning; COGNITIVE psychology; COGNITIVE science; ETHICS; PHILOSOPHY; ETHICAL decision making; MORAL relativism; JUDGMENT (Logic); LOGICAL positivism
- Publication
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2005, Vol 86, Issue 4, p544
- ISSN
0279-0750
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0114.2005.00241.x