Moral progress, knowledge and error: Do people believe in moral objectivity?
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A prevalent assumption in metaethics is that people believe moral objectivity. If this were true then should the possibility of objective progress, knowledge, and error. We developed surveys to investigate whether these predictions hold. Our results suggest that, neither abstractly nor concretely, dominantly knowledge They attribute less objectivity phenomena than case science no more, or only slightly cases social conventions personal preferences. This finding was obtained for a regular sample as well who are particularly likely be reflective informed (philosophers philosophy students). paper hence contributes recent empirical challenges thesis
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Psychology
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1465-394X', '0951-5089']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2119951