Monday, June 01, 2009  On Debunking IV: Non-Selective Debunking
(by guest blogger Tamler Sommers)           Gary Williams
said...  Great post. Charles Taylor makes a similar argument in
his "Human Agency and Language," although his explanandum is
subjective agency itself. He uses examples like honor and shame
to point out that, like you put it, humans are partially
constituted by subjectivity and subsequently, can't be fully
captured in a crudely naturalistic vocabulary.  Richard said...
Sometimes revisionism is clearly fine. Other times it is clearly
better described as 'eliminitivism'. (Imagine a naturalist who
says, "God is love. I still believe in love. Therefore, I still
believe in God!" This is clearly to change the subject.) It all
depends whether the eliminated features are the ones that we
consider to be of central importance.  Personally, I would
consider your proposed 'revision' of morality to be
eliminitivist in nature. The eliminated feature of normativity
(or 'categorical bindingness') is prec