Moral Anti-Realism

In metaethics, moral anti-realism is the doctrine that there are no objective moral values or normative facts. It is usually contrasted with moral realism, which holds that there are objective moral values and any moral claim is therefore either true or false.

In this sequence, I explore these doctrines in depth and ultimately build a case for moral anti-realism.

In my view, the perhaps strongest argument for moral anti-realism is that moral reasoning can be satisfying even once we give up on the realist perspective. Therefore, after the arguments against moral realism, I delve into the mechanics of reasoning about morality from an anti-realist perspective.

Mo­ral Anti-Real­ism: In­tro­duc­tion & Summary

What Is Mo­ral Real­ism?

Why Real­ists and Anti-Real­ists Disagree

Against Irre­ducible Normativity

Why the Irre­ducible Nor­ma­tivity Wager (Mostly) Fails

Me­taeth­i­cal Fa­nat­i­cism (Dialogue)

Mo­ral Uncer­tainty and Mo­ral Real­ism Are in Tension

Dis­man­tling He­donism-in­spired Mo­ral Realism

The Life-Goals Frame­work: How I Rea­son About Mo­ral­ity as an Anti-Realist

The “Mo­ral Uncer­tainty” Rab­bit Hole, Fully Excavated