Recent Critiques and Defenses of Ethical Intuitionism

The theory of moral intuition advanced and defended here is based on the largely unexplored possibility of combining: a) the idea that moral intuitions are justified on the basis of distinctive non-doxastic seemings (i.e., perceptualism) and b) the claim that a non-doxastic state also makes you aware of facts that are accessible in other ways through empirical observation and theorizing. Thus, the perceptualist is able to point to the phenomenology of intuition experience as important not along epistemic dimensions, but which have significant explanatory advantages over competing skeptical and non-skeptical approaches to moral knowledge and justification.