i try to show that richard rorty, although is not a moral philosopher like kant, nerveless, has moral philosophy that must be taken seriously. rorty was not engaged with moral philosophy in the systematic manner common among leading modern and contemporary moral philosophers. this paper has two parts: first part, in brief, is concerned with principles of his philosophy such as anti-essentialism...

My goal in this paper is to shed light on how moral progress actually occurs. I begin by restating a conception of moral progress that I set out in previous work, the BNaïve Conception,^ and explain how it comports with various normative and metaethical views. I go on to develop an index of moral progress and show how judgments about moral progress can be made. I then discuss an example of mora...

Moral progress may be a matter of time scale. If intuitive measures for moral progress like the degree of physical violence within a society are taken as empirical markers, then most human societies have experienced moral progress in the last few centuries. However, if the development of the human species is taken as relevant time scale, there is evidence that humanity has experienced a global ...

Philosophy & Public AffairsVolume 49, Issue 2 p. 156-178 Original Article Virtue Signaling and Moral Progress Evan Westra, Corresponding Author Westra [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-2005-7998 Search for more papers by this author First published: 23 February 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/papa.12187Citations: 11 Thanks to Dong An, Kristin Andrews, Jennifer Nagel, Adam the editor...