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Comment author: [deleted] 04 April 2013 01:21:13PM 2 points [-]

I don't believe anyone's really taken the metaethics sequence out for a test drive to see if it solves any nontrivial problems in moral philosophy.

Comment author: PrawnOfFate 14 April 2013 06:14:13PM 2 points [-]

Its worse than that. No-one even knows what the theory laid out is. EY says different things in different places.

Comment author: wedrifid 04 April 2013 01:24:29PM * 0 points [-]

I don't believe anyone's really taken the metaethics sequence out for a test drive to see if it solves any nontrivial problems in moral philosophy.

If I recall correctly it struck me as an ok introduction to metaethics but it stopped before it got to the hard (ie. interesting) stuff.