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How to be an Error Theorist about Morality
Simon Robertson
Discipline of Philosophy, University of Southampton
Abstract.
This paper clarifies how to be an error theorist about morality. It
takes as its starting point John Mackie’s error theory of the
categoricity of moral obligation, defending Mackie against objections
from both naturalist moral realists and minimalists about moral
discourse. However, drawing upon minimalist insights, it argues that
Mackie’s focus on the ontological status of moral values is misplaced,
and that the underlying dispute between error theorist and moralist is
better conducted at the level of practical reason.
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