On the one hand, it seems as though an important way of acquiring full-fledged moral
knowledge is this: starting as young children, we simply adopt the moral beliefs that are …

One of the most influential objections to moral realism is that it is unable to articulate a
plausible attendant epistemology. JL Mackie (1977), for instance, famously complained that …

The moral realist is a cognitivist: she thinks that moral judgments express truthevaluable
propositions. In contrast to the subjectivist or individual relativist, the moral realist holds that …

A common anti‐realist strategy is to argue that moral realism (or at least the non‐naturalist
form of it) should be abandoned because it cannot adequately make room for moral …

Common parlance seems to presuppose that there is genuine moral knowledge. We hear
people say that someone knew full well that he was doing wrong and did it anyway, or that …

I have it on good authority that any critical response to a philosophical position can be
classified either as an “Oh yeah?” or a “So what?” Moral realism has encountered at least its …

Naturalistic moral realism is an influential research program concerning moral thought, talk,
and reality. The naturalistic realist's guiding hypothesis is that there are moral facts and …

Professor Audi's wide-ranging paper raises a number of provocative issues. I will only have
space to focus on two:(1) What are the best ways to carve up the landscape of cognitivist …

Moral Knowledge addresses, and argues for answers to, a wide range of questions within
moral epistemology, including questions about the sources of moral knowledge, the …

The Sources of Epistemic Normativity epistemic normativity is irreducible and sui generis,
the Epistemic Independence thesis. In this paper, I seek to show that the epistemic …