Unbelievable Errors
An Error Theory about All Normative Judgements
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2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-889294-6 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-889294-6 (ISBN)
Bart Streumer defends an error theory that suggests that all moral and other normative judgements are false; and then he argues that we cannot believe this theory. But this need not be a problem: Streumer holds that to make philosophical progress, we need to make a sharp distinction between a theory's truth and our ability to believe it.
In Unbelievable Errors, Bart Streumer defends an error theory about all normative judgements: not just moral judgements, but also judgements about reasons for action, judgements about reasons for belief, and instrumental normative judgements. This theory says that these judgements are beliefs that ascribe normative properties, but that these properties do not exist. It therefore entails that all normative judgements are false.
Streumer also argues, however, that we cannot believe this error theory. This may seem to be a problem for the theory, but he argues that it is not. Instead, he argues, our inability to believe this error theory makes the theory more likely to be true, since it undermines objections to the theory, it makes it harder to reject the arguments for the theory, and it undermines revisionary alternatives to the theory.
Streumer then sketches how certain other philosophical views can be defended in a similar way, and how philosophers should modify their method if there can be true theories that we cannot believe. He concludes that to make philosophical progress, we should sharply distinguish the truth of a theory from our ability to believe it
In Unbelievable Errors, Bart Streumer defends an error theory about all normative judgements: not just moral judgements, but also judgements about reasons for action, judgements about reasons for belief, and instrumental normative judgements. This theory says that these judgements are beliefs that ascribe normative properties, but that these properties do not exist. It therefore entails that all normative judgements are false.
Streumer also argues, however, that we cannot believe this error theory. This may seem to be a problem for the theory, but he argues that it is not. Instead, he argues, our inability to believe this error theory makes the theory more likely to be true, since it undermines objections to the theory, it makes it harder to reject the arguments for the theory, and it undermines revisionary alternatives to the theory.
Streumer then sketches how certain other philosophical views can be defended in a similar way, and how philosophers should modify their method if there can be true theories that we cannot believe. He concludes that to make philosophical progress, we should sharply distinguish the truth of a theory from our ability to believe it
Bart Streumer is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He previously taught at the University of Reading. His work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
1: Normative Judgements and Properties
2: The Reduction Argument
3: Further Versions of the Reduction Argument
4: The False Guarantee and Regress Objections
5: Further Defences of Realism
6: The Symmetry Objection
7: Further Views
8: The Error Theory
9: Believing the Error Theory
10: Reason to Believe the Error Theory
11: Objections, Rejection, Revision
12: Effects, Parallels, Progress
Conclusion
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 134 x 213 mm |
| Gewicht | 312 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-889294-2 / 0198892942 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-889294-6 / 9780198892946 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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