BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260606T172839Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20140807T121500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20140807T141500 SUMMARY:Global Evolutionary Debunking in Ethics: An Assessment UID:20260613T030834Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Parkville Campus\, Melbourne\, Australia DESCRIPTION:

In the wake of Sidgwick and Moore\, most philosophers seemed to agree that &ldquo\;Evolution has very little indeed to say to Ethics&rdquo\; (Moore 1903: 109). In recent years\, however\, so-called evolutionary debunking arguments (&ldquo\;EDAs&rdquo\;) have become popular among moral philosophers. According to some\, evolutionary explanations of our moral intuitions are &ldquo\;highly significant for normative ethics&rdquo\; (Singer 2005: 343). In this talk\, evolutionary debunking arguments in (meta-) ethics are classified\, and the soundness of two global ones is assessed. I argue that (a) global evolutionary debunking arguments in support of a moral error theory must be mistaken because of what I call the parasiticity of falsehood\; and that (b) the evolutionary debunking of robust meta-ethical realism is convincing if and only if realists endorse what I call the independence thesis.

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