Are Ethics Just Emotions? - Simon Blackburn
Critique of G.E. Moore: Blackburn identifies G.E. Moore's 1903 introduction of 'non-natural properties' and 'intuition' as the starting point for the problematic 'realist appearance' in ethics, arguing it led philosophertakeawayFunctionalism in Ethics vs. Science: Blackburn draws a parallel between ethics and physics, noting that science explains what things do (functionalism) rather than their intrinsic nature. Similarly, ethics should explaintakeawayHolism and the Myth of the Given: Referencing Wilfrid Sellars, Blackburn argues against atomistic views of knowledge ('heap of shot'). Instead, believing a simple fact like 'the table exists' involves a complex web of cotakeaway
