19 October 2016
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Don Loeb (University of Vermont) and Peter Railton (University of Michigan)
- What is moral realism? . 11:59
- If there are moral facts, are they part of the natural world? . 6:00
- What moral irrealists deny . 13:22
- Don on the metaethical cacophony of moral talk . 8:59
- Peter on morality as a common enterprise . 19:14
- Is there really such a thing as moral discovery? . -1:-49:-29
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