An Ecumenical Mooreanism

The Dynamic Strategy of Common Sense Against Radical Revisionism

“…6-7) Lycan is also very clear that "Moore's distinctive point is comparative" (Lycan 2019, p. 8) in that it relies on a "plausibility comparison" (Lycan 2001, p. 39). More recently, Fuqua has also offered a synthetic presentation of the Moorean strategy which relies on the same kind of comparison of rationality between the common-sense proposition and the skeptic's premises: "we have more reason to believe [common-sense propositions] than we do to believe the conjunction [of the premises] of a philosophical skeptical argument to the contrary" (Fuqua 2021(Fuqua , 2023. 41 Lycan, for instance, formulates the principle with an (open) series of near-synonyms which do not help getting at a clear and distinct concept: "the premise is undeniably less credible, less certain, less plausible, less rational to accept, etc."…”

“…208-209). Jonathan Fuqua (2021) has also made a convincing case for the idea that Mooreanism conceived along similar lines is or should be "ecumenical" (i.e. as a metaphilosophy in which a rationality comparison between the skeptic's premises and the common-sense proposition should count as a reason to revise the former and not the latter).…”