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The Evolutionary Debunking Of Quasi-realism (2022)
Book Chapter
Sinclair, N., & Chamberlain, J. (2023). The Evolutionary Debunking Of Quasi-realism. In D. E. Machuca (Ed.), Evolutionary Debunking Arguments: Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mathematics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology (33-55). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

In “The Evolutionary Debunking of Quasi-Realism,” Neil Sinclair and James Chamberlain present a novel answer that quasi-realists can pro-vide to a version of the reliability challenge in ethics—which asks for an explanation of why our moral... Read More about The Evolutionary Debunking Of Quasi-realism.

Moral Testimony As Higher-order Evidence (2020)
Book Chapter
Lee, M., Robson, J., & Sinclair, N. (2020). Moral Testimony As Higher-order Evidence. In M. Klenk (Ed.), Higher-Order Evidence and Moral EpistemologyTaylor & Francis (Routledge)

Belief pills and the possibility of moral epistemology (2018)
Book Chapter
Sinclair, N. (2018). Belief pills and the possibility of moral epistemology. In R. Shafer-Landau (Ed.), Oxford studies in metaethics. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823841.001.0001

I argue that evolutionary debunking arguments are dialectically ineffective against a range of plausible positions regarding moral truth. I first (§1) distinguish debunking arguments which target the truth of moral judgements from those which target... Read More about Belief pills and the possibility of moral epistemology.