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As to the name of the fallacy, I'm not sure. I suppose it's something like a misplaced expectation? The mistake is thinking that a certain theoretical moving part should do more work than it is rightly expected to do, while refusing to examine those moving parts which are rightly expected to do that work. EDIT: An example of a similar mistake might be thinking that a decision theory should tell you what to value and why, or that evolution should give an account of bio-genesis.
The SEP article's last section, on deontology and metaethics is very helpful here: