13. Russ Shafer-Landau | Ethics

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Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses primarily on the foundations of ethical theory. His publications include Moral Realism: A Defense; Whatever Happened to Good and Evil?; and The Fundamentals of Ethics.

00:00 - Introduction
01:46 - Moral realism
03:31 - Aprioricity of moral truths
09:19 - Moral reliabilism and moral epistemology
17:41 - Virtues of realism over anti-realism
21:37 - Categoricity and stance-independence of moral truths
26:17 - Evolutionary influences on moral beliefs
32:23 - Normative error theory
39:23 - Possibility of failure with respect to moral norms
42:38 - Issues with the "ruthless immoralist"
49:36 - Resolving moral disagreement
55:24 - Defending realism given moral disagreement
1:00:38 - Modality of moral truths, supervenience, and entailment
1:06:54 - Supervenience and constitution
1:10:53 - Ontological differences between normative theories
1:13:04 - Non-physical norms and mind
1:14:00 - Arguing against error theory
1:17:36 - Conclusion

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I wonder how these objective morals gain their agency (out there waiting for us to discover them)? 🤭

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He actually sounds remarkably like Canadian Catholic lmao

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