Perhaps the most familiar understanding of “naturalism” derives from Quine, it as a continuity empirical theories world described through scientific method. So, might be surprising that one important naturalistic moral realists, Philippa Foot, rejects standard evolutionary biology in her justly lauded Natural Goodness. One main reasons for this is true claim humans can flourish (eudaimonia) wit...

The urgency of sociology is to understand social reality, especially those morally reprehensible parts we fervently oppose and wish to change. Sociology is defined morally by the evils it opposes and exposes. The chosen weapon of sociology is realism. The discipline insists that our theories reflect reality, that they allow us to see things as they actually are, that the methods we employ are r...