Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2016
Alex Worsnip
Pages 226-235
Explanatory Indispensability and Deliberative Indispensability
Against Enoch’s Analogy
In this note, I discuss David Enoch’s influential deliberative indispensability argument for metanormative realism, and contend that the argument fails. In doing so, I uncover an important disanalogy between explanatory indispensability arguments and deliberative indispensability arguments, one that explains how we could accept the former without accepting the latter.