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

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

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 …

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

Posner boldly states that there has been no moral counterpart to material progress, and that
the criteria for evaluating any moral change are only valid relative to a particular culture. We …

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 …

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 …