Although you try to correct this on the footnote, your post still gives the idea Alan Carter created this concept. Value pluralism has been going on for quite some time and is recognized as a defensible position in ethics to the extent of having a SEP entry to it: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/value-pluralism/ . More importantly, if you are aiming at bring Eliezer’s ideas closer to mainstream philosophy, then I don’t think Alan should be your choice. Not because he is not part of mainstream philosophy but because there are much bigger names defending some sort of value pluralism: Isaiah Berlin, Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, Larry Temkin and so on. In fact, some people argue that Stuart Mill was not value-monist. There is also the position called moral particularism which claims morality does not consist solely of general principles or guidelines but it is extremely context-dependent (which seems to mean it would be hard to compress), a position the US Supreme Court seems to adopt.
Although you try to correct this on the footnote, your post still gives the idea Alan Carter created this concept. Value pluralism has been going on for quite some time and is recognized as a defensible position in ethics to the extent of having a SEP entry to it: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/value-pluralism/ . More importantly, if you are aiming at bring Eliezer’s ideas closer to mainstream philosophy, then I don’t think Alan should be your choice. Not because he is not part of mainstream philosophy but because there are much bigger names defending some sort of value pluralism: Isaiah Berlin, Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, Larry Temkin and so on. In fact, some people argue that Stuart Mill was not value-monist. There is also the position called moral particularism which claims morality does not consist solely of general principles or guidelines but it is extremely context-dependent (which seems to mean it would be hard to compress), a position the US Supreme Court seems to adopt.