Brown and Moore's value invariabilism vs Dancy's variabilism

Philosophical Quarterly 60 (238):162-168 (2010)
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Campbell Brown has recently argued that G.E. Moore's intrinsic value holism is superior to Jonathan Dancy's. I show that the advantage which Brown claims for Moore's view over Dancy's is illusory, and that Dancy's view may be superior.

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The Conception of Intrinsic Value.G. E. Moore - 1998 - In James Rachels, Ethical theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
Two kinds of holism about values.Campbell Brown - 2007 - Philosophical Quarterly 57 (228):456–463.

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