Constructivism and the Error Theory

In Christian Miller (ed.), Continuum Companion to Ethics. Continuum (2011)
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This paper presents a comparative evaluation of constructivist and error theoretic accounts of moral claims. It is argued that constructivism has distinct advantages over error theory

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