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Is Ethics Without God Possible? An Answer, Plus Some Thoughts, About the Question

Religions
Is Ethics Without God Possible? In this article, I argue for the conclusion that ethics without God is possible. First, I begin by offering a brief overview of metaethics, outlining the main options concerning the nature of ethical statements.
Michael Tooley
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Verbal Metadisputes

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 153-168, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Many philosophical disputes have become so intractable that philosophers question whether there is a fact of the matter as to which side is right or whether these disputes are entirely verbal. Yet these “metadisputes” have also become intractable. This raises the question: Could they, too, be verbal? What would that even mean? Using tools from
Alexander W. Kocurek
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Naturalism in Metaethics [PDF]

, 2015
This chapter offers an introduction to naturalist views in contemporary metaethics. Such views attempt to find a place for normative properties (such as goodness and rightness) in the concrete physical world as it is understood by both science and ...
Suikkanen, Jussi
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EL CONSTRUCTIVISMO ÉTICO EN JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS ETHICAL CONSTRUCTIVISM IN JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS

Revista de Derecho (Coquimbo), 2012
Este artículo pretende precisar la noción de constructivismo ético tal como aparece en la filosofía de John Rawls. Para tal efecto, esta investigación avanza en la determinación conceptual de la idea de constructivismo ético desde una perspectiva ...
Johann S. Benfeld E.
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Czym jest filozofia moralna?

Filozofia Publiczna i Edukacja Demokratyczna, 2012
The first part of the present article is an introduction to ethics as a branch of philosophy, as moral philosophy, or philosophical thinking about morality.
Anna Malitowska
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High Standards

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 1, Page 208-221, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Evaluative adjectives are gradable. The standard for falling under a gradable adjective “F” is either context‐relative or absolute. Some philosophers have recently used general linguistic tests to argue that “rational” and (moral) “good” are maximum‐degree absolute gradable adjectives: Only what's perfectly morally good strictly counts as ...
Pekka Väyrynen
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Naturalizacja języka etycznego w ramach ekspresywizmu, czyli o owocności perspektywy ewolucjonistycznej w metaetyce (Expressivism and the Naturalization of the Language of Morals: On the Fruitfulness of Evolutionary Perspective in Metaethics) [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2010
escriptivists’ method of naturalizing moral language is neither the only nor the most promising one in metaethics. The paper deals with attempts to combine the expressivistic account of moral concepts with an evolutionary research programme.
Adrian Kuźniar
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Why Ethics Requires a God and Is Safer from Evolutionary Debunking Threats as a Result: A Reply to Sterba

Religions
Sterba has argued that ethics does not require God and that an atheistic objectivist ethics is compatible with an evolutionary account of our development.
Gerald K. Harrison
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Gender Identity: What It Is and Why It Matters. By Rach Cosker‐Rowland, Oxford University Press, 2025. 368 pp. $40.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐894798‐1

Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 3, Page 213-217, Summer 2026.
Alex Byrne
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Towards Cognitive Moral Quasi-Realism

Philosophies, 2018
There is a long-standing discussion concerning the nature of moral discourse. Multiple views range from realism—according to which moral discourse is closer to scientific discourse than to fictional discourse—to anti-realism—according to which moral ...
Eduardo García-Ramírez
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