Moral Realism and Moral Antirealsim

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Kick off hangout to a series on Metaethics. Start on the path to getting your own views on what morality is straight enough in your head that you can explain them with confidence by joining this preliminary glimpse into metaethics through a discussion of moral realism and moral antirealism. Although I will start with a limited panel so we can have the philosopher geeks help set up the discussion, and so that the people who +1ed my earlier announcement can get "first dibs," I will open up the hangout afterwards for people to join. Don't be shy: Let's make fools of ourselves together! OPTIONAL Reference Materials Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBE50_tfAIA&list;=PLXKKIUdnOESH7mWijTiv4tTFAcQnEkFDJ +Kane B 's series on metaethics. I like that Kane B addresses subjectivism specifically and early, because subjectivism seems often to be something around which the arguments of our little hangout corner of the internet often focus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLBnlOvvlhM +Carneades.org 's basic definitional distinctions wrt "Ethics" in philosophy. A four minute long vid that explains what metaethics is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBE50_tfAIA +Kane B 's intro to metaethics. Part one of an excellent series that seems to me nearly perfectly frames metaethics so as to highlight the issues that come up again and again in our hangout discussions. http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/1725 An amazing discussion with the well-known moral realist Peter Railton and the antirealist (AKA "irrealist," as he prefers to call it) Don Loeb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ynQaM9j82U An interview with antirealist (AKA irrealist) Don Loeb (the same Don Loeb as in the above cited discussion) that fleshes out his views a bit more. Some Readings: http://www.uvm.edu/~dloeb/GR.pdf Antirealist (irrealist) Don Loeb's humorous paper "Gastronomic Realism" http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/ Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) "Moral Realism" http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-anti-realism/ SEP "Moral Anti-Realism" http://www.iep.utm.edu/moralrea/#SH2b A blurb on quasirealism that is short enough to understand. Thanks to +Andreas Geisler http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-anti-realism/projectivism-quasi-realism.html More on quasirealism curtesy +Sextus Empiricus