Essentially everyone agrees that the outlawing of slavery, or the beginning of women's
suffrage, or the defeat of Nazism constitute paradigmatic examples of moral progress in …

Societies change over time. Chattel slavery and foot‐binding have been abolished,
democracy has become increasingly widespread, gay rights have become established in …

Assuming that there is moral progress, and assuming that the abolition of slavery is an
example of it, how does moral progress occur? Is it mainly driven by specific individuals who …

In earlier work, I argued that observed changes in moral values over human history are best
explained as cognitive progress: societies tend over the long term to move closer to the …

Moral progress may be a matter of time scale. If intuitive measures of moral progress like the
degree of physical violence within a society are taken as empirical markers, then most …

The paper explores the interplay among moral progress, evolution and moral realism.
Although it is nearly uncontroversial to note that morality makes progress of one sort or …

This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are
mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a …

This special issue contains 11 articles that are revisions of keynote lectures and papers that
were presented during the conference 'Moral Progress: Concepts, Measurements, and …

Awareness that moral beliefs and practices have changed across time threatens our
confidence in our current moral beliefs: if past moral beliefs turned out to be wrong, how can …

On occasion one hears debates about whether or not the history of man-or, perhaps, the
history of civilized man-shows that some sort of" progress" has taken place. It is wholly …