Multiple Choice Quiz

According to Sinnott-Armstrong, Moore's critique of the naturalistic fallacy led many twentieth-century moral philosophers to:

embrace moral skepticism.

reject moral intuitionism.

reject empirical science as irrelevant to moral philosophy.

all of the above.

According to Sinnott-Armstrong, to say that moral believers are justified independently of an inferential ability is:

to say they would be justified even if they were not able to infer those beliefs from any other beliefs.

to say they would be justified even if they were moral idiots.

to say they would be justified even if they were logically incompetent.

to say they would be justified even if they held all their other beliefs unjustifiably.

In Sinnott-Armstrong's view, we can deny moral intuitionism by:

showing that moral beliefs always depend on inferential ability.

showing that moral believers are not justified in holding spontaneous moral beliefs.

both a and b.

neither a nor b.

Sinnott-Armstrong claims that the following principle explains why we do not view beliefs based on prejudice and stereotype as justified:

confirmation is needed for a believer to be justified when the believer is partial.

confirmation is needed for a believer to be justified when the believer is emotional.

confirmation is needed for a believer to be justified when the circumstances are conducive to illusion.

confirmation is needed for a believer to be justified when the belief arises from an unreliable or disreputable source.

According to Sinnott-Armstrong believers can be called partial whenever:

their beliefs affect their self-interest directly.

their beliefs affect their self-interest indirectly.

both a and b.

neither a nor b.

According to Greene and Haidt, moral judgments are:

much like mathematical judgments.

much like aesthetic judgments.

much like religious judgments.

much like grammatical judgments.

Sinnott-Armstrong argues that the following illusions might infect our moral beliefs:

illusions from context.

illusions from overgeneralization.

illusions from heuristics.

all of the above.

Sinnott-Armstrong claims that his five principles are:

overriding defeaters.

undermining defeaters.

rebutting defeaters.

all of the above.

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