Supervenience, externalism and moral knowledge

Southern Journal of Philosophy 24 (S1):43-55 (1986)
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This article begins with a refutation of a common argument for the view that we have no knowledge of objective moral facts. However, This refutation leaves open the possibility of second-Order moral skepticism, The view that we can never tell whether or not we have objective moral knowledge. Two ways of showing that there is such knowledge are then considered and it is argued that even if one is successful, This need not establish that there is a single true morality

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