Lewis Williams: 'A Novel Solution to the ‘What Next Question’ for Normative Error Theorists'
The “What Next Question” for moral error theorists asks: if moral discourse is systematically error-ridden, then how, if at all, should we continue to employ moral discourse? Recent years have seen growing numbers of moral error theorists come to endorse a wider normative error theory according to which all normative judgements are untrue. But despite this shift, the What Next Question for normative error theorists has received far less attention. This paper presents a novel solution to this question. Along the way, two primary contributions are advanced. First, a nonnormative methodology for answering the normative error theoretic What Next Question is developed. Second, the novel solution is presented and defended in accordance with the proposed methodology.
