Getting people to think about morality as a matter of objective facts rather than subjective preferences may lead to improved moral behavior, Boston College researchers report in the Journal of ...

ABSTRACT: The realist dispute in ethics has wide implications for moral ontology, epistemology, and semantics. Common opinion holds that this debate goes to the heart of the phenomenology of moral ...

The key value from which everything in Harris's argument supposedly follows is "well-being"; however, it's difficult to know just what is meant by this. In recent years, Sam Harris has become a ...

ABSTRACT: Although scientific naturalistic philosophers have been concerned with the role of scientific psychology in illuminating problems in moral psychology, they have paid less attention to the ...

There has been substantial debate in the legal academy centered on the questions of whether universal moral intuitions exist and, if so, whether these intuitions have a privileged normative status, a ...

An op-ed in the New York Times fretting that Common Core is teaching kids that there are no moral facts has generated a bit of discussion. A Common Core poster says there are only “facts” (in the ...

Moral realism is the view that there are moral facts, that there are objective moral properties out there in the world. But there are not. Notions like ‘rights’, ‘wrongs’, and ‘duties’ are leftovers ...

People who are primed with "moral realism" may be motivated to better moral behavior. Researchers assess the impact of meta-ethics on everyday decision-making in a new report. Getting people to think ...

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Getting people to think about morality as a matter of objective facts rather than subjective preferences may lead to improved moral behavior, Boston College researchers report ...

Explore Richard Carrier's insights on moral ontology and the nature of moral facts that shape moral philosophy. Discover more about moral realism. All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, ...