When Do Replies to the Evolutionary Debunking Argument Against Moral Realism Beg the Question?

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 97 (2):265-280 (2018)
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ABSTRACTSome proponents of the evolutionary debunking argument against moral realism believe that replies that assume substantive moral claims beg the question. In this paper, I give a new account of what's wrong with such replies. On this account, many realists beg the question when they rely on substantive moral claims in their replies to the argument, but naturalists do not. While this account generalizes to some other domains, it allows perceptual and inductive realism to remain undebunked.

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