We sometimes think about the ethical significance of merely possible circumstances. People
sometimes wonder, for example, if it would have been wrong to break certain promises that …

It is widely held, even among nonnaturalists, that the moral supervenes on the natural. This
is to say that for any two metaphysically possible worlds w and w′, and for any entities x in …

Non-naturalism is a form of moral realism—a family of views according to which there are
moral truths that are objective and metaphysically robust. The distinctive claim of non …

According to many, that the normative supervenes on the nonnormative is a truism of
normative discourse. If one person is morally good and another not, they must differ in some …

Heightened awareness of the origins of our moral judgments pushes many in the direction of
moral skepticism, in the direction of thinking we are unjustified in holding our moral …

There is a well‐known argument against irreducibly normative properties that appeals to the
following claim about supervenience: for all possible worlds W and W*, if the instantiation of …

In the second half of my graduate studies, I had a meeting with the Director of Graduate
Studies (DGS). After confirming that my dissertation was progressing smoothly, I was asked …

Expressivism is supposed to have an advantage over moral realism, in that it can explain
why it is a conceptual truth that the moral supervenes on the natural, even though the natural …

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oder an eine bigotte, unterdrückerische Sittenlehre. Und damit hätten Sie im Grunde schon …

Reductive Realism in ethics is the view that it is possible to locate morality in the world as
science and experience reveal it to us. Many opponents of Reductive Realism forcefully …