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  • Context, Intersubjectivism, and Value: Humean Constructivism Revisited

  • Jocelyn Maclure
  • Journal:
    Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie / Volume 59 / Issue 3 / September 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 November 2020, pp. 377-401
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  • I defend a version of what Sharon Street called “Humean constructivism.” I'll first sketch out why I think that contextual constructivism provides us with a more plausible understanding of the ontological status of values than both Kantian constructivism and moral realism. In addition to its recognition of the role of evolutionary pressures in the emergence of human morality, contextual constructivism must now clarify the role of historical intersubjectivity in the subsequent development of morality. I will then claim that adding a coherentist module to Humean constructivism provides a satisfactory answer to those who fear that contextual metaethical theories can only be non-cognitivist. Finally, I will sketch out why I think that the notion of a mind-independent “space of moral reasons” is largely compatible with Humean constructivism.