Thanks for sharing this, was not aware of the survey! Seems like this suggests I’ve gotten a skewed impression of the distribution of meta-ethical views, so in that sense the objection I raise in this post may only be relevant to a smaller subset of the community than I’d previously thought.
I agree with a lot of the spirit of PMR (that people use the word “should” to mean different things in different contexts), but think that there’s a particularly relevant and indespensible sense of the word “should” that points toward a not-easily-reducible property. Then the interesting non-semantic question to me—and to certain promiment “realists” like Enoch and Parfit—is whether any actions are actually associated with such a property.
(Within my cave of footnotes, I say a bit more on this point in FN14)
(Within my cave of footnotes, I say a bit more on this point in FN14)
From looking at the footnotes, I think maybe you mean the one that begins, “These metaphysical and epistemological issues become less concerning if...” Wanted to note that this is showing up as #15 for me.
Thanks for sharing this, was not aware of the survey! Seems like this suggests I’ve gotten a skewed impression of the distribution of meta-ethical views, so in that sense the objection I raise in this post may only be relevant to a smaller subset of the community than I’d previously thought.
I agree with a lot of the spirit of PMR (that people use the word “should” to mean different things in different contexts), but think that there’s a particularly relevant and indespensible sense of the word “should” that points toward a not-easily-reducible property. Then the interesting non-semantic question to me—and to certain promiment “realists” like Enoch and Parfit—is whether any actions are actually associated with such a property.
(Within my cave of footnotes, I say a bit more on this point in FN14)
From looking at the footnotes, I think maybe you mean the one that begins, “These metaphysical and epistemological issues become less concerning if...” Wanted to note that this is showing up as #15 for me.