【Subject Class】Ethics, Meta-Ethics 【Keyword】Moral Realism, Moral Projectivism, Moral Facts, Moral Supervenience, Simon Blackburn 【Abstract】This is a realist response to Blackburn’s version of the explanatory inadequacy of the moral thesis based on the ban on mixed worlds, and to its possible explanatory reductionism version. First, the moral supervenience relationship is made explicit, for the ...

Michael Huemer argues that cross-cultural convergence toward liberal moral values is evidence of objective progress, and by extension, for realism. Nathan Cofnas claims to debunk Huemer’s argument contending can be better explained ‘two related non-truth-tracking processes’: self-interest its long-term tendency result in social conditions conducive greater empathy. This article although success...

one of the most significant issues in meta–ethics is moral realism, which has been criticized so much. one of the main criticisms of it has been offered by j.l. mackie. he believes that moral properties depend upon our feelings and emotions and they don't refer to reality; so, they have no causal explanation and cannot give us any knowledge. therefore any judgment about moral properties is...