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  title info:
    title: Morality and epistemic judgement
    sub title: the argument from analogy
  name:
    name part: Cowie, Christopher
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 236 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: "Moral judgments attempt to describe a reality that does not exist, so they are all false. This is the moral error theory, a deeply troubling yet plausible view that is now one of the canonical positions in moral philosophy. The most compelling argument against it is the argument from analogy. According to this, the moral error theory should be rejected because it would seriously compromise our practice of making epistemic judgments-judgments about how we ought to form and revise our beliefs in light of our evidence-and could undermine systematic thought and reason themselves. Christopher Cowie provides a novel assessment of the recent attention paid to this topic in moral philosophy and epistemology. He reasons that the argument from analogy fails because moral judgments are unlike judgments about how we ought to form and revise our beliefs in light of our evidence. On that basis, a moral error theory does not compromise the practice of making epistemic judgments. The moral error theory may be true after all, Cowie concludes, and if it is then we will simply have to live with its concerning consequences."--
  note: Christopher Cowie.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [219]-227) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: 08.38 ethics
  subject:
    topic: Ethics
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  classification: BD161 .C659 2019
  classification: 121
  classification: 190
  identifier: 0198842732
  identifier: 9780198842736
  identifier: 2019941440
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190519
    record change date: 20200420142156.0
    record identifier: in00004155855
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng