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No, Most Philosophers Aren’t Moral Realists

Clarification of poor inferences from a popular study

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Dec 19, 2025
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Moral realism is the view that there are stance-independent moral truths—that is, truths about what is morally good, valuable, obligatory, and so on, that do not depend for their truth on the attitudes of agents or observers. Moral realism strikes me as totally absurd. But quite apart from the plausibility of the view itself, it is—at least in my experi…

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