Thanks for bringing up this option! I don’t agree with this framing for two reasons:
As I point out in my sequence’s first post, some ways in which “moral facts exist” are underwhelming.
I don’t think moral indeterminacy necessarily means that there’s convergence of expert judgments. At least, the way in which I think morality is underdetermined explicitly predicts expert divergence. Morality is “real” in the sense that experts will converge up to a certain point, and beyond that, some experts will have underdetermined moral values while others will have made choices within what’s allowed by indeterminacy. Out of the ones that made choices, not all choices will be the same.
I think what I describe in the second bullet point will seem counterintuitive to many people because they think that if morality is underdetermined, your views on morality should be underdetermined, too. But that doesn’t follow! I understand why people have the intuition that this should follow, but it really doesn’t work that way when you look at it closely. I’ve been working on spelling out why.
Thanks for bringing up this option! I don’t agree with this framing for two reasons:
As I point out in my sequence’s first post, some ways in which “moral facts exist” are underwhelming.
I don’t think moral indeterminacy necessarily means that there’s convergence of expert judgments. At least, the way in which I think morality is underdetermined explicitly predicts expert divergence. Morality is “real” in the sense that experts will converge up to a certain point, and beyond that, some experts will have underdetermined moral values while others will have made choices within what’s allowed by indeterminacy. Out of the ones that made choices, not all choices will be the same.
I think what I describe in the second bullet point will seem counterintuitive to many people because they think that if morality is underdetermined, your views on morality should be underdetermined, too. But that doesn’t follow! I understand why people have the intuition that this should follow, but it really doesn’t work that way when you look at it closely. I’ve been working on spelling out why.