Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - October 2011 - Volume 34, Issue 05  

Open Peer Commentary

Competence, reflective equilibrium, and dual-system theories

Wesley Buckwaltera1 and Stephen Sticha2

a1 Department of Philosophy, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10016-4309. jbuckwalter@gc.cuny.edu https://wfs.gc.cuny.edu/JBuckwalter/index.html

a2 Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1107. sstich@ruccs.rutgers.edu http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~stich/

Abstract

A critique of inferences from “is” to “ought” plays a central role in Elqayam & Evans' (E&E's) defense of descriptivism. However, the reflective equilibrium strategy described by Goodman and embraced by Rawls, Cohen, and many others poses an important challenge to that critique. Dual-system theories may help respond to that challenge.

(Online publication October 14 2011)

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