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Moral Progress Without Moral Realism
Philosophical Papers, 2010Abstract This paper argues that we can acknowledge the existence of moral truths and moral progress without being committed to moral realism. Rather than defending this claim through the more familiar route of the attempted analysis of the ontological commitments of moral claims, I show how moral belief change for the better shares certain features ...
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Morality, Moralism, and Realism
2008Abstract There may have been a time, perhaps at the peak of Victorian self-esteem in the English-speaking countries, when morality generally occupied an unquestioned place at the top of a hierarchy of social and personal values. Indeed, as the high tide of Christian religious influence began to ebb in Europe, morality itself as a sort of
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Moral realism and moral judgments
Erkenntnis, 1992For moral realists moral judgments will be a kind of factual judgment that involves the basically reliable apprehension of an objective moral reality. I argue that factual judgments display at least some degree of conceptual sensitivity to error, while moral judgments do not. Therefore moral judgments are not a kind of factual judgment.
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Moral Realism and Moral Dilemma
The Journal of Philosophy, 1983Abstract Argues against two articles of Bernard Williams in which he attacks moral realism. In the first (Ethical Consistency), Williams finds a disanalogy between judgements of matters of fact and moral judgements in that when two beliefs are irreconcilable one must simply cede: whereas an obligation that overrides another obligation ...
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Abstract A metaphysics-first treatment of the concepts of some domain treats the metaphysics of entities of that domain as prior in the order of philosophical explanation to grasp of concepts of that domain. This conception can be implemented for moral concepts if grasp of moral properties is treated as involving tacit, often partial ...
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Moral realism and anti-realism
2018This chapter deals with various issues and debates pertaining to moral realism. Realism positions are themselves quite diverse, and are typically divided into versions of naturalism and non-naturalism. One version of anti-realism holds that there simply are no moral facts at all.
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Moral Realism Moral and Theological Realism: The Explanatory Argument
2011Moral realism stands for the idea that there are some moral claims that are true in a certain way. Their truth does not depend on the attitudes that anyone takes towards their content. Theological realism is simply theism: the view that God exists. In this chapter, the God refers to the traditional God of Western monotheism: an omniscient, omnipotent ...
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Moral Relativism and Moral Realism
Monist, 1984Gilbert Harman has recently distinguished three different kinds of moral relativism.1 One form of moral relativism Harman calls moral judg ment relativism (MJR). It is the view that all "moral judgments contain an implicit reference to the speaker or some other person or group or certain moral standards, etc." Harman never says what he means by ...
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