Another reason is that consequentialism may be false. The importance of this possibility depends upon the probability we assign to it, but it must carry some weight unless it can be rejected absolutely, which is only plausible on the most extreme forms of moral subjectivism.
I don’t think this is true. It’s perfectly possible to find some views (eq ‘the set of all nonconsequentialist moral views’) incoherent enough as to be impossible to consider (or at least, no more so than the negation of various axioms of applied maths and logic would be), but some others to be conceivable.
I basically adhere to that (in fact thinking it of the albeit poorly defined set of ‘non utilitarian moral views’); I don’t know (or much care) if people would describe me as a moral realist, but I doubt anyone would accuse me of being an extreme moral subjectivist!
Btw, I’m glad to see this post, and sad that it hasn’t been upvoted more. I have nothing against the more emotion-oriented content that seems to dominate the top-voted page on this forum, but it’s of little interest to me. I hope we begin to see more posts examining the logic and science behind EA.
I don’t think this is true. It’s perfectly possible to find some views (eq ‘the set of all nonconsequentialist moral views’) incoherent enough as to be impossible to consider (or at least, no more so than the negation of various axioms of applied maths and logic would be), but some others to be conceivable.
I basically adhere to that (in fact thinking it of the albeit poorly defined set of ‘non utilitarian moral views’); I don’t know (or much care) if people would describe me as a moral realist, but I doubt anyone would accuse me of being an extreme moral subjectivist!
Btw, I’m glad to see this post, and sad that it hasn’t been upvoted more. I have nothing against the more emotion-oriented content that seems to dominate the top-voted page on this forum, but it’s of little interest to me. I hope we begin to see more posts examining the logic and science behind EA.