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A Feminist Defense Of Moderate Moral Intuitionism, Bill Jc Cameron
A Feminist Defense Of Moderate Moral Intuitionism, Bill Jc Cameron
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The three integrated articles of this dissertation are concerned with the epistemic status of moral intuitions. The first article argues in favour of moderate moral intuitionism, the view that while any successful moral epistemology must be intuitionist to at least some extent, it must also take intuitions to be fallible. This is accomplished by synthesizing work by Robert Audi and George Bealer into a view of moral intuitions which is capable of overcoming some major contemporary objections against intuitionism, particularly from Sharon Street and Peter Singer.
The next article raises a more powerful objection to intuitionism, applying feminist ethics and …