Disagreeing about how to disagree

Philosophical Studies 168 (3):823-34 (2014)
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Abstract

David Enoch, in Taking Morality Seriously, argues for a broad normative asymmetry between how we should behave when disagreeing about facts and how we should behave when disagreeing due to differing preferences. Enoch claims that moral disputes have the earmarks of a factual dispute rather than a preference dispute and that this makes more plausible a realist understanding of morality. We try to clarify what such claims would have to look like to be compelling and we resist his main conclusions.

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Kate Manne
Cornell University
David Sobel
Syracuse University

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Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism.David Enoch - 2011 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
Subjectivism and idealization.David Sobel - 2009 - Ethics 119 (2):336-352.
Why idealize?David Enoch - 2005 - Ethics 115 (4):759-787.

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