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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19883-1In the last three chapters, I have addressed three of the most prominent objections to intuitionism, those concerned with intuitionism’s ability to account for moral knowledge, its ability to explain and resolve moral disagreement, and its ability to account for moral motivation. In this chapter, I address miscellaneous further objections.

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ReductionismIn the present chapter, I defend two main theses, as against the views of ethical reductionists: that at least some evaluative properties are irreducible, and that moral knowledge cannot be explained without appeal to ethical intuition.

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Practical ReasonsMany anti-realists have charged that if moral realism were true, there would be . for acting morally. In this chapter, I argue instead that only the intuitionist has a plausible account of our reasons for being moral.

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Non-Cognitivismls’. Given this, the most straightforward account of what the word ‘good’ is doing in the sentence is this: there is a property, ., which the word refers to, and the sentence ascribes that property to pleasure.

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Disagreement and Error at all. All of this evidences the esteem in which intuitionism is held these days.. So, the naive onlooker might conclude, contemporary philosophers must know some obvious and decisive objections to the theory. What are they?