Friday, March 12, 2010

One more outline! Nothing new here.

Chapter One: Epistemic Realism
1.1 What is Epistemic Realism and Anti-Realism?
1.2 There can be no reason to believe Anti-Realism.
1.3 There can be no (good) reason to believe Realism.
1.4 Cuneo's "Companions in Guilt" argument relies on the possibility of reasons to believe Anti-Realism, and therefore the argument is undermined

Chapter Two: Basic Epistemic Beliefs
2.1 Eliminating the arbitrary for epistemology: Intro through Enoch and Shechter
2.2 Enoch and Shechter fail to eliminate the arbitrary from epistemology.
2.3 No matter what you say about the structure of justification, the arbitrary cannot be completely removed from epistemology.
2.4 An account of how the arbitrariness of epistemology is minimized.
2.5 Enoch's "Defense of Robust Meta-Ethical Realism" fails to cohere with the rest of a standard epistemology.
2.6 Since there is a built in arbitrariness to epistemology, the challenge for the Moral Realist is to show that Realism fits in well with the rest of his beliefs.

Chapter Three: The Objections to Moral Realism
3.1 A new parity argument.
3.2 Focusing on a specific argument: the epistemological challenge for ethics and epistemology.
3.3 Most efforts to deal with this objection to Moral Realism fail.
3.4 Focusing on the challenge this objection provides to epistemology shows us how best to deal with the objection. The way is to reject it as a skeptical concern, on par with Evil Demons, the Matrix and Brains in a Vat.

1 comment:

Linsey Carpenter said...

I think creating an outline is really a good idea for people who are having a hard time with their academic work. It would be a big thesis help for thesis writing as it would organize all the ideas and information you have. That way, you can easily see what would be good to include in the paper.