Self-Quiz 3.5: David Enoch, Why I Am an Objectivist about Ethics (and Why You Are, Too)

Which is not an objectivity test Enoch uses on morality?

The phenomenology of disagreement/deliberation test

The porridge test

The spinach test

The counterfactual test

A counterfactual is a

falsehood.

fact consistent with another fact.

"what if" sentence.

fact used to rebut an opposing position.

According to Enoch, which of the following claims is subjective?

Gender discrimination is wrong.

Burritos are delicious.

God is all-knowing.

All of the above

Which is not a response Enoch gives to the disagreement objection, which claims that the presence and character of moral disagreement suggests that morality is not objective?

It fails to distinguish between objectivity-undermining disagreement and non–objectivity-undermining disagreement.

It underrates the extent of disagreement in subject matters whose objectivity is uncontroversial.

It begs the question against the objectivist.

It could be self-defeating.

A subject matter is subjective if

it is about subjects.

it is about servitude.

the truths or facts in it exist independently of what we think or feel about them.

the truths or facts in it are dependent on what we think or feel about them.

According to Enoch, the objectivity tests indicate that moral discourse

is subjective.

is objective.

aspires to subjectivity.

aspires to objectivity.

Which of the following does Enoch mention as a subject matter for which, like morality, "perception and empirical methodology do not seem to be relevant"?

Astronomy

Mathematics

Culinary taste

Astrology

Suppose the dogmatism worry is correct—that "people are likely to become dangerously intolerant if they believe in objective morality." What, according to Enoch, does this imply?

Morality is not objective.

Intolerance is morally permissible.

Both of the above

None of the above

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