A Distinction Without a Difference? Good Advice for Moral Error Theorists

Ratio 26 (3):373-390 (2013)
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This paper explores the prospects of different forms of moral error theory. It is argued that only a suitably local error theory would make good sense of the fact that it is possible to give and receive genuinely good moral advice

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10.1111/rati.12028

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reprint Lillehammer, Hallvard (2014) "A distinction without a difference? Good advice for moral error theorists". In Streumer, Bart, Irrealism in Ethics, pp. 23–40: Wiley-Blackwell (2014)

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Hallvard Lillehammer
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Dispositional Theories of Value.Michael Smith, David Lewis & Mark Johnston - 1989 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 63 (1):89-174.
The error in the error theory.Stephen Finlay - 2008 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (3):347-369.
Can We Believe the Error Theory?Bart Streumer - 2013 - Journal of Philosophy 110 (4):194-212.

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