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Is Morality Real?: A Debate book cover

1st Edition

Is Morality Real? A Debate

By Matt Lutz, Spencer Case Copyright 2023
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge
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In this book, Spencer Case and Matt Lutz debate whether objective moral facts exist. We often say that actions like murder and institutions like slavery are morally wrong. And sometimes people strenuously disagree about the moral status of actions, as with abortion. But what, if anything, makes statements about morality true? Should we be realists about morality, or anti-realists? After the... Read more

Foreword by Neil Sinhababu

Part I: Introducing Metaethics

1. Fact or opinion?
Matt Lutz and Spencer Case

2. Anti-realism
Matt Lutz and Spencer Case

3. Realism
Matt Lutz and Spencer Case

Part II: Opening Arguments

A. For Realism

4.The Moorean Argument
Spencer Case

5. A Foothold for Realists
Spencer Case

B. For Anti-Realism

6. The Case for Error Theory
Matt Lutz

7. The Case for Skepticism
Matt Lutz

8. The Life of an Anti-Realist
Matt Lutz

Part III: Disagreements

9. Humeanism
Matt Lutz and Spencer Case

10. Moral Explanations
Matt Lutz and Spencer Case

11. Mooreanism and the A Priori
Matt Lutz and Spencer Case

12. Entanglement
Matt Lutz and Spencer Case

Biography

Matt Lutz is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wuhan University, where he has worked since receiving his PhD in philosophy from the University of Southern California in 2015. He works on metaethics and epistemology, with a particular focus on moral epistemology and moral skepticism.

Spencer Case received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2018, and teaches online classes there. He is also a freelance writer and podcaster.

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