Hard Environmental Choices: Comparability, Justification and the Argument from Moral Identity

The illusion of argument justification.

Argumentation is an important way to reach a new understanding. Strongly caring about an issue, which is often evident when dealing with controversial issues, has been shown to lead to biases in argumentation. We suggest that people are not well calibrated in assessing their ability to justify a position through argumentation, an effect we call the illusion of argument justification. Furthermor...

Moral Argument

What a “Mormon” thinks of Christ By Tim Dorius I recently read with interest the November article “Is Mormonism Christian?” in which the author of this article states “Mormonism is not Christian.” After reading this, I had the opportunity to speak with Rick Thomas, Editor of Beacon OU, who invited me to respond with my own article. I thank the Beacon for the opportunity to write this article. I...

Moral Realism, Moral Relativism and Moral Rules (A Compatibility Argument)

Relativism and realism are often held to be in conflict. It is not obvious what the exact nature of the conflict is supposed to be, because it is not obvious what the two doctrines amount to. But that there is some kind of conflict between moral realism and moral relativism is evidenced by the fact that some take moral relativism to be the straightforward denial of moral realism. David Brink, f...

D. Loeb Moral Realism and the Argument from Disagreement

The argument from disagreement is among the most important that has been directed against moral realism.1 Yet, in recent years it has been widely rejected – so widely, in fact, that even those who are sympathetic with irrealism have often found it unconvincing. One reason for this has to do with the fact that newer, more sophisticated versions of moral realism have recently emerged. Some of the...

Moral argument and Christian ethics.