This chapter explores the attractions, problems, and prospects of moral realism. Special attention is given to Moore's Open Question Argument, internalism, noncognitivism, and error theories. The final section sketches a research program for moral realism that takes on and pursues Hume's aim of explaining the ability to think in moral, and more broadly, normative, terms in a way that shows that the successful exercise of this ability is neither metaphysically nor epistemically mysterious.
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Sayre-McCord, G. (2006). Moral Realism. In The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/0195147790.003.0002
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