New Essays on Normative Realism

It's difficult to explain the point of normative judgments—judgments like "You ought to donate to charity," or "You ought to believe that smoking is bad for you, given the evidence"—without assuming that such judgments express objective truths. And yet philosophers have always been puzzled by such a "realism" about the normative, for an array of conceptual, epistemological, and metaphysical reasons.

This book gathers together a collection of essays on this classic philosophical problem, aut...