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the evil demon. In that case, there would not be an essential connection between our sensory experiences and the truth. Therefore, if anything like a ‘primitively rational way of forming beliefs’ is at stake in acquiring normative beliefs, a similar worry might arise regarding whatever that way is thought to be. In particular, since Wedgwood claims that way is a form of normative intuition, exercised and manifested in our dispositions to respond to normative facts in the corresponding ways, we may have worries about the essential connection between our intuitions and truth. Finally, Wedgwood tries to defend the claim that normative knowledge is a priori and he further discusses how his account is able to accommodate genuine normative disputes. Certainly, any reader interested in meta-ethics will find in this book a very rich and comprehensive attempt to delineate the nature of normative statements. Although there Wedgwood offers very appealing claims, there seem to be a few explanatory gaps within some of the points discussed that may leave the reader uncertain regarding crucial aspects of his view.
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تاریخ انتشار 2010