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Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism, written by Erik J. Wielenberg

Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism, written by Erik J.... (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 196 pages. isbn: 9780198714323. Hardback: $65.00.For more than a decade, Erik Wielenberg has been among the foremost defenders of a robust nontheistic moral realism. Wielenberg maintains that there are objective moral values and objective moral duties, that we can have knowledge of these values and duties, and that neither the existence of these values and duties nor our knowledge of them requires a supernaturalistic explanation. These claims are defended in his Robust Ethics, an excellent book that largely accomplishes the modest (but important) goal of demonstrating that Wielenberg’s brand of realism is a serious rival to other versions of moral realism, naturalistic and theistic alike.Chapter 1, “The Metaphysics of Morals,” focuses primarily on the relationship between the moral and the nonmoral. Taking for granted a number of intuitively plausible assertions about intrinsic value and our reasons for acting—most importantly, that some things are intrinsically good, and that we have normative reason to act in ways that are intrinsically good—Wielenberg notes that the supervenience of the moral on the nonmoral, though uncontroversial, needs to be explained. Indeed, as Wielenberg understands it, this is the heart of J.L. Mackie’s “queerness argument” against moral realism. Everyone http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Moral Philosophy Brill

Robust Ethics: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Godless Normative Realism, written by Erik J. Wielenberg

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Journal of Moral Philosophy , Volume 14 (6): 4 – Dec 9, 2017
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(New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), 196 pages. isbn: 9780198714323. Hardback: $65.00.For more than a decade, Erik Wielenberg has been among the foremost defenders of a robust nontheistic moral realism. Wielenberg maintains that there are objective moral values and objective moral duties, that we can have knowledge of these values and duties, and that neither the existence of these values and duties nor our knowledge of them requires a supernaturalistic explanation. These claims are defended in his Robust Ethics, an excellent book that largely accomplishes the modest (but important) goal of demonstrating that Wielenberg’s brand of realism is a serious rival to other versions of moral realism, naturalistic and theistic alike.Chapter 1, “The Metaphysics of Morals,” focuses primarily on the relationship between the moral and the nonmoral. Taking for granted a number of intuitively plausible assertions about intrinsic value and our reasons for acting—most importantly, that some things are intrinsically good, and that we have normative reason to act in ways that are intrinsically good—Wielenberg notes that the supervenience of the moral on the nonmoral, though uncontroversial, needs to be explained. Indeed, as Wielenberg understands it, this is the heart of J.L. Mackie’s “queerness argument” against moral realism. Everyone

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