Is Your Moral Realism Compatible With Your Intuition-Based Epistemology?

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Rush J. Belinda: I don't think that there is a determinant method by which we can always make progress in our discussions with one another about what's morally right or wrong. If moral realists have available them in principle, various different moral systems, depending on what they discover through this kind of thing, does your moral realism suggest any way of people talking to each other about morality? He says the answer he would give is the way people ought to talk to one another is respectfully. Rush J.Belinda: My big goal is not to have people agree with my point of view, but for people to care about the foundations of quantum mechanics,. I think the same thing about

Despite occasional and important disagreements, most people are in rough agreement about what it means to be moral, to do the right thing. There’s much less agreement about why we should be moral, or even what kind of answer to that question could be convincing. Philosopher Russ Shafer-Landau is one of the leading proponents of moral realism — the view that objective moral truths exist independently of human choices. That’s not my own view, but ethics and meta-ethics are areas in which I think it’s wise to keep an open mind and listen to smart people who disagree. This conversation offers food for thought for people on either side of this debate.

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Russ Shafer-Landau received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Arizona. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among his numerous books are Moral Realism: A Defense and Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? He is the editor of Oxford Studies in Metaethics, and is the founder and organizer of the annual Madison Metaethics Workshop.

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