What's wrong with moral internalism

Ratio

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 14-36

  Lockie, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 38949101185     PISSN: 00340006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9329.00049     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Jonathan Dancy, Moral Reasons (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), p.4. This, as with each of these arguments, has multiple locations in the literature. I should add that Dancy sees his position as ultimately only having 'an internalist flavour'
2. Mark Platts, 'Moral Reality and the End of Desire', in Mark Platts, ed., Reference, Truth and Reality (London: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1980), p.81
3. Michael Smith, The Moral Problem (Oxford: Blackwell, 1994), p. 71
4. Paraphrasing Wittgenstein's metre-rule example, remark 50 in the Investigations. For an effective criticism of such neo-operationalism in its original domain of application see Jerry Fodor and Charles Chihara: 'Operationalism and Ordinary Language', American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 4, (1965)
5. Mark Platts, Ways of Meaning (London: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1979), p. 261; and passim in the Oxford Wittgensteinian-Aristotelian literature
6. David McNaughton, Moral Vision (Oxford: Blackwell, 1988), p. 141; and generally in the internalist literature
7. 'Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical Imperatives?' Procedings of the Anstotelian Society Supplementary Vol. LII, 1978, p. 16
8. See for example Hilary Putnam: 'Brains and behaviour' [1965] in: Challenges to Empiricism, ed. Harold Morick (London: Methuen 1980). The arguments of the next section can also be assimilated to certain anti-behaviourist counters
9. Dancy, Moral Reasons, p. 255
10. See Phillipa Foot, Virtues and Vices (Oxford: Blackwell 1978), p. 170
11. A version of this paper was read at the St. Andrews 'Ethics and Practical Reasoning Conference' in March 1995. My thanks go out to the conference organisers and fellow participants; also to Steve Wilkinson, Jonathan Dancy, Richard Gaskin and Michael Morris for comments on an earlier, written, version