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    Moral explanation of moral judgements
    Theoria 89 (6): 891-909. 2023.
    Abstract“The wrongness of Albert's action causally explains why Jane judged that his action was wrong”. This type of causal moral explanation has been extensively discussed in the recent metaethical literature. This paper motivates the following claims about this type of moral explanation. First, a typical defence of this type of moral explanation suggested in the literature does not work because it predicts inaccurate modal information. Second, focusing on different aspects of the ways moral ju…Read more
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    A localist turn for defending moral explanations
    Asian Journal of Philosophy 1 (2): 1-23. 2022.
    One influential positive argument for moral realism is the Explanatory Indispensability Argument. A crucial premise of this argument is the explanatory relevance of moral properties. On this premise, moral properties, such as wrongness, rightness, courage, and cowardice, are explanatorily indispensable to some empirical phenomena. Although there has been a lively debate on this premise, one crucial challenge to this thesis, what I call the Scientific Standard Challenge, has not been properly dis…Read more
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    Oxford Studies in Metaethics, edited by R. Shafer-Landau
    Journal of Moral Philosophy 14 (1): 109-112. 2017.