MORAL OBJECTIVITY AND MORAL REALISM
MORAL OBJECTIVITY AND MORAL REALISM

Summary/Abstract: In these papers, I present three major trends in contemporary moral philosophy: non-cognitivism, subjective cognitivism and naturalistic realism. The analysis main focus lies in revealing the sort of objectivity that each of this theories can claim for moral statements. I suggest that both cognitive subjectivism and naturalistic realism fail to give an acceptable reconstruction of moral objectivity. Non-cognitivism, although it performs better, has extremely modest claims, and we need an argument to the extent that we can live with such modesty. Part I sets the stage for the entire inquiry, by analysing the conceptual resources adequate for it.

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