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expositions-1793	none	The Ethics of Metaethics: On Thomas Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos	2015	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4227	271	62	Are we really supposed to abandon a massively successful scientific research program because Nagel finds some scientific claims hard to square with what he thinks is obvious and “undeniable,” such as his confidence that his “clearest moral…reasonings are objectively valid”?7 An irony, however, should not go unnoticed.8 Nagel finds materialist naturalism problematic because, among other reasons, he thinks it undermines the distinction between appearances and reality in matters of value: in brief, moral realism. ”23 Evaluative truth—on which Street takes a constructivist view24—is understood as “a function of the evaluative attitudes we have”: more fully, a function of these attitudes brought into reflective equilibrium by evaluative judgments drawing on precisely our fund of attitudes shaped by selective pressures.25 Nagel summarizes: “Street holds that a Darwinian account is strongly supported by contemporary science, so she concludes that moral realism is false.”26	cache/expositions-1793.pdf	txt/expositions-1793.txt