The Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism

Paul Bloomfield is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and works on issues in moral philosophy and metaphysics. He is the author of Moral Reality (2001), Morality and Self-Interest (2008), and The Virtues of Happiness (2014).David Copp is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at the University of California, Davis. He is author of Morality, Normativity, and Society (1995) and Morality in a Natural World (2007), and he has edited several anthologies, including The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory (2006). He is editor of a monograph series with OUP called “Oxford Moral Theory.”

• IntroductionPaul Bloomfield and David Copp I. ABOUT MORAL REALISM AND ITS VARIETIES1. Defining Moral Realism Jennifer Foster and Mark Schroeder2. Metaphysical Structure for Moral RealistsTristram McPherson 3. Moral Realism and ObjectivitySigrún Svavarsdóttir 4. Epistemology for RealistsSarah McGrath 5. The Bearing of Moral Rationalism on Moral RealismMichael Smith 6. Does Anything We Care About Distinguish the Non-Natural from the Natural? Mark van Roojen7. Ethical Naturalism, Non-Naturalism, and In Between Ralph Wedgwood8. Can a Moral Judgment be Moorean? William Lycan9. Real Ethics Simon Blackburn II. NATURALISM10. Ethical Naturalism: Problems and Prospects Louise Antony and Ernesto Garcia11. Ethical Realism and Robust Normativity David Copp12. Moral Functionalism Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit13. Function, Fitness, Flourishing Paul Bloomfield14. Realism about the Good-For Human BeingsL. Nandi Theunissen III. NON-NATURALISM15. Moral Conceptual Truths John Bengson, Terence Cuneo, and Russ Shafer-Landau16. Five Kinds of Epistemic Arguments against Robust Moral RealismJoshua Schecter17. The Explanatory Roles of Moral Facts and the Case for Moral Realism Robert Audi18. Derek Parfit's Non-Naturalist Cognitivism Roger Crisp19. Ardent Moral Realism and the Value-Laden World William J. FitzPatrick20. Oh, All the Wrongs I Could Have Performed! David Enoch and Itamar Weinshtock-Saadon IV. NEITHER NATURALISM NOR NON-NATURALISM21. Response-Dependent Realism Mark LeBar22. Deflationary Meta-ethicsPaul Horwich23. On the Properties of Quietism and Robustness Matthew H. Kramer24. Prospects for a Quietist Moral Realism Mark D. Warren and Amie L. Thomasson25. Moral Anti-Exceptionalism Timothy Williamson