Mark Hopwood

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1,269 appearances 31 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2009 last heard Sep 2014

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Elucidations · Episode 41: David Enoch discusses metaethics · 9 Nov 2012 podcast

There's something in the world that makes it true or the absence of that thing in the world would make it false. voice-verified

And that thing in the world is not true. voice-verified

something that's kind of part of the natural world, it's going to be something that is, well, some people are going to say kind of weird or something different, something that's beyond just tables and chairs and buildings and people. voice-verified

There's something out there that exists. voice-verified

That's the view. voice-verified

That makes my statement true or false. voice-verified

So maybe we could get into one of the reasons people have thought we should resist this. voice-verified

So voice-verified

You talk about a philosopher, Gilbert Harman, who has an objection to realism. voice-verified

And he asks us to imagine a case where you see a group of children setting a camp on fire. voice-verified

And you say to yourself, that's wrong. voice-verified

And Harman says, what do we need to say to explain your saying to yourself, that's wrong? voice-verified

And it seems like all we need to explain that is certain facts about your upbringing, the kind of culture you're in, maybe certain emotional facts about you. voice-verified

Once we've said all of that, once we've talked about your upbringing, your culture, your emotional makeup, we've said all that we need to say to explain your belief that this burning of the cat is wrong. voice-verified

The one thing we don't need to talk about is some kind of fact out there in the world that your belief is sensitive to or responsive to. voice-verified

So according to the principle that we should never posit the existence of things that aren't necessary. voice-verified

to explain the phenomena, we don't need to talk about moral facts. voice-verified

We can explain everything we need to explain without them. voice-verified

So how do you respond to that kind of challenge? voice-verified

In a way, you're attributing a certain kind of contradiction to your opponents, right? voice-verified

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