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Moral anti-realism

also expressivism, error theory, moral relativism

The family of views denying that there are mind-independent moral facts: moral language instead expresses attitudes (expressivism), systematically misfires (error theory), or is true only relative to a culture or individual (relativism).

Sources

  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Moral Anti-Realism"
  • research/fixtures/subjectivism-relativism-vs-eo-conversation-ready-case.md, on the peritrope argument against the strong global version and the narrower academic versions (Harman, Wong) that don't simply collapse

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Non-theistic moral realism

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