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Reply to Almeida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2004

MARK C. MURPHY
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, 215 New North, Washington, DC 20057

Abstract

Michael J. Almeida offers two criticisms of the argument of my ‘A trilemma for divine command theory’. The first criticism is that I mistakenly assume the validity of the following inference pattern: property A is identical to property B; property B supervenes on property C; therefore, property A supervenes on property C. The second criticism is that I have misinterpreted the moral-supervenience thesis upon which I rely in making this argument. The first of Almeida's criticisms is completely untenable. The second of his criticisms casts doubt on my argument, a doubt that I can mitigate but not entirely dispel.

Type
Reply to Almeida
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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