caa a22 4500 606238158 CHVBK 20210128101257.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-015-9586-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-015-9586-4 Graber Abraham Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Western Illinois University, 456 Morgan, 61455, Macomb, IL, USA aut Towards a Cognitive Scientific Vindication of Moral Realism: The Semantic Argument [Elektronische Daten] [Abraham Graber] In a methodological milieu characterized by efforts to bring the methods of philosophy closer to the methods of the sciences, one can find, with increasing regularity, meta-ethical arguments relying on scientific theory or data. The received view appears to be that, not only is it implausible to think that a scientific vindication of a non-mentalist moral semantics will be forthcoming but that evidence from a variety of sciences threatens to undermine non-mentalist views. My aim is to push back against this apparent consensus. The well-established phenomenon whereby moral judgments influence our attributions of putatively purely descriptive properties has come to be known as the Knobe Effect. Joshua Knobe has attempted to explain this surprising phenomenon by arguing that our folk psychological judgments are partially constituted by moral judgments. Drawing on an argument originally offered by Moore, I argue that if some instantiation of Knobe's explanatory strategy is accurate, we have good reason to believe that mentalist moral semantics are untenable. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 The Knobe effect nationallicence The side-effect effect nationallicence Moral semantics nationallicence Non-mentalism nationallicence Moral realism nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/5(2015-11-01), 1059-1069 1386-2820 18:5<1059 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9586-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9586-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Graber Abraham Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Western Illinois University, 456 Morgan, 61455, Macomb, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/5(2015-11-01), 1059-1069 1386-2820 18:5<1059 2015 18 10677