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Review of Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability

Faraci, David

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This volume covers two related debates in both meta-ethics and the philosophy of mathematics, with brief forays into the philosophies of logic and religion and the history of ethics. The first debate is about ‘evolutionary debunking arguments’ (EDAs) – roughly, arguments that because evolutionary pressures do not track realistically construed ethical and mathematical (EM) truths, the evolutionary origins of our EM-beliefs suggest that they do not track such truths. The second debate is about ‘indispensability arguments’ (IAs) – roughly, arguments that we are justified in including realistically construed EM-entities in our ontology because they are indispensable for some important project.

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Faraci, D. (2018). Review of Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability. Analysis, 78(2), 377-381. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/any019

Journal Article Type Book Review
Online Publication Date Apr 6, 2018
Publication Date Apr 6, 2018
Deposit Date Sep 3, 2018
Publicly Available Date Apr 6, 2020
Journal Analysis
Print ISSN 0003-2638
Electronic ISSN 1467-8284
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Not Peer Reviewed
Volume 78
Issue 2
Pages 377-381
Item Discussed Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability. by Leibowitz, Uri D.; Sinclair, Neil
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/any019
Related Public URLs https://davidfaraci.com/pubs/ethicsmath.pdf

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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Analysis following peer review. The version of record Faraci, David (2018). Review of Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability. Analysis 78(2): 377-381 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/any019




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