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Base property exemplification and mixed worlds: remarks on the Shafer-Landau/Mabrito exchange

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In this essay I distinguish between a synchronic view of base property exemplification and a diachronic one. I argue that only a diachronic view of base property exemplification can substantiate a ban on morally mixed worlds. I then argue that one of Robert Mabrito’s recent criticisms of Russ Shafer-Landau’s moral realism fails on either a synchronic or a diachronic view.

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Notes

  1. This formulation of the supervenience argument comes from Mabrito (2005).

  2. For the record, I do not think that Shafer-Landau’s ‘exhaustive constitution’ story about moral metaphysics is successful. However, since my criticisms are quite different from Mabrito’s they will have to wait for another time.

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  • Mabrito, M. (2005). Does Shafer-Landau have a problem with supervenience? Philosophical Studies, 126, 297–311.

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  • Shafer-Landau, R. (2003). Moral realism: A defence. New York: Oxford University Press, 88 pp.

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I would like to thank Paul Bloomfield and Michael Lynch for their insightful comments on an earlier draft of this essay.

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    Jeff Wisdom

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Wisdom, J. Base property exemplification and mixed worlds: remarks on the Shafer-Landau/Mabrito exchange. Philos Stud 138, 429–434 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-006-9060-1

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