Review of Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability

Faraci, David

Abstract

This volume covers two related debates in both meta-ethics and the philosophy of mathematics, with brief forays into the philosophies of logic and religion and the history of ethics. The first debate is about ‘evolutionary debunking arguments’ (EDAs) – roughly, arguments that because evolutionary pressures do not track realistically construed ethical and mathematical (EM) truths, the evolutionary origins of our EM-beliefs suggest that they do not track such truths. The second debate is about ‘indispensability arguments’ (IAs) – roughly, arguments that we are justified in including realistically construed EM-entities in our ontology because they are indispensable for some important project.

Citation

Faraci, D. (2018). Review of Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability. Analysis, 78(2), 377-381. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/any019

• Journal Article Type: Book Review
• Online Publication Date: Apr 6, 2018
• Publication Date: Apr 6, 2018
• Deposit Date: Sep 3, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 6, 2020
• Journal: Analysis
• Print ISSN: 0003-2638
• Electronic ISSN: 1467-8284
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 78
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 377-381
• Item Discussed: Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability. by Leibowitz, Uri D.; Sinclair, Neil
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/any019
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1611262
• Related Public URLs: https://davidfaraci.com/pubs/ethicsmath.pdf