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

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 …

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 …

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 …

The idea of moral progress is a necessary presupposition of action for beings like us. We
must believe that moral progress is possible and that it might have been realized in human …

This paper shows that moral progress is a substantive and plausible idea. Moral progress in
belief involves deepening our grasp of existing moral concepts, while moral progress in …

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 …

IN the literature on moral progress, a central philosophical puzzle relates to how large-scale
behavioral change occurs. What explains the end of slavery, reductions in poverty …

A statement of moral progress is about a change toward a morally better state and typically
has the following logical structure: x has made (moral) progress regarding y in relation to z …

At first glance, one of the most obvious places to look for moral progress is in individuals, in
particular in moral development from childhood to adulthood. In fact, that moral progress is …