Objectivity in Ethics What objectivity in ethics is depends, in part, on what ethics is. On the narrowest understanding, ethics consists in judgments about moral constraints, which govern a person's treatment of other people, as such. On the...

Moral Realism Moral realism is a metaethical view committed to robust objectivity in ethics. No single description is likely to capture all realist views, but a reasonably accurate rule is to understand moral realism as the conjunction of three theses:...

Constructivism, Moral Moral constructivism is a metaethical view about the nature of moral truth and moral facts (and properties), so called because the intuitive idea behind the view is that such truths and facts are human constructs rather than...

Rationalism in Ethics [addendum] Moral rationalism, like many philosophical "isms," is an umbrella term for a variety of constituent claims. Not all moral rationalists endorse all of these claims, but the central ones that have been...

Moral realism is the view in philosophy that there are objective moral values. Moral realists argue that moral judgments describe moral facts. This combines a cognitivist view about moral judgments (they are truth-evaluable mental states that describe...

Russ Shafer-Landau. Moral Realism: A Defence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 322 pp. $99.00. Many Christians bemoan the moral relativism of popular culture, presuming that they stand alone in defending "absolute truth" and objective moral standards in a moral wasteland. For those...

[Review Essay: Russ Shafer-Landau, Moral Realism: A Defence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003), x + 322 pp.] In 1903 G.E. Moore celebrated a robust nonnaturalistic form of moral realism with the publication of his Principia Ethica. Subsequent years have witnessed the development and...