Ethics without errors

In Bart Streumer (ed.), Irrealism in Ethics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 41–59 (2014)
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I argue against the claim that we should adopt a moral error theory. The intelligibility of our moral practice need offer no questionable metaphysical hostages to fortune. The two most credible policy recommendations that might follow from moral error theory, abolitionism and prescriptive fictionalism, are not very credible.

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9781118837368   9781118837412

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10.1002/9781118837368.ch3

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James Lenman
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