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Published in Sophia “Why the Horrendous deeds objection is still a bad argument”

February 12th, 2021 3 Comments

My paper, “Why the Horrendous deeds objection is still a bad argument” has now been published by Sophia here.  The abstract is as follows: A common objection to divine command meta-ethics (‘DCM’) is the horrendous deeds objection. Critics object that if DCM is true, anything at all could be right, no matter how abhorrent or […]

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Brad Hooker and Philip Quinn

January 10th, 2019 6 Comments

Most versions of Divine command meta-ethics  (DCM) contend that the property of being morally required is informatively identical with the property of being commanded by God.[1] A common objection to divine command meta-ethics is the horrendous deeds objection.  We can formalise this objection as follows: [P1] If DCM is true, then if God commands unjust […]

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