The Normativity Problem for Rational Reductions of Morality

Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 12:253-259 (2018)
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My goal in this paper is to point out that whatever difficulty evolutionary reductions have in capturing the normativity essential to moral talk, rational reductions face the same problem. My paper is arranged in two parts. In the first, I distinguish between rational and evolutionary reductions of morality, and highlight the basic normativity problem for evolutionists1. In the second, I offer a tu quoque against rationalists.

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