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Moral realism and cross-cultural normative diversity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2005

Edouard Machery*
Affiliation:
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA15260http://www.pitt.edu/~machery/
Daniel Kelly*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ08901-2882
Stephen P. Stich*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy and Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ08901-2882http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~stich/

Abstract

We discuss the implications of the findings reported in the target article for moral theory, and argue that they represent a clear and genuine case of fundamental moral disagreement. As such, the findings support a moderate form of moral anti-realism – the position that, for some moral issues, there is no fact of the matter about what is right and wrong.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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