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INTUITIVE NON‐NATURALISM MEETS COSMIC COINCIDENCE
Author(s) -
BEDKE MATTHEW S.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2009.01336.x
Subject(s) - intuitionism , epistemology , naturalism , philosophy , metaphysics , normative , face (sociological concept) , natural (archaeology) , linguistics , archaeology , history
Having no recourse to ways of knowing about the natural world, ethical non‐naturalists are in need of an epistemology that might apply to a normative breed of facts or properties, and intuitionism seems well suited to fill that bill. Here I argue that the metaphysical inspiration for ethical intuitionism undermines that very epistemology, for this pair of views generates what I call the defeater from cosmic coincidence. Unfortunately, we face not a happy union, but a difficult choice: either ethical intuitionism or ethical non‐naturalism, but not both.