naa a22 4500 510789102 CHVBK 20180411083313.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-012-9397-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-012-9397-y Faraci David Philosophy Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA aut Brown on Mackie: Echoes of the Lottery Paradox [Elektronische Daten] [David Faraci] In "The possibility of morality,” Phil Brown considers whether moral error theory is best understood as a necessary or contingent thesis. Among other things, Brown contends that the argument from relativity, offered by John Mackie—error theory's progenitor—supports a stronger modal reading of error theory. His argument is as follows: Mackie's is an abductive argument that error theory is the best explanation for divergence in moral practices. Since error theory will likewise be the best explanation for similar divergences in possible worlds similar to our own, we may conclude that error theory is true at all such worlds, just as it is in the actual world. I contend that Brown's argument must fail, as abductive arguments cannot support the modal conclusions he suggests. I then consider why this is the case, concluding that Brown has stumbled upon new and interesting evidence that agglomerating one's beliefs can be epistemically problematic—an issue associated most famously with Henry Kyburg's lottery paradox. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2012 Abduction nationallicence Error theory nationallicence Lottery paradox nationallicence John Mackie nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 751-755 0048-3893 41:3<751 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9397-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-012-9397-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Faraci David Philosophy Department, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/3(2013-09-01), 751-755 0048-3893 41:3<751 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer