Deep disagreement, fact, and moral normativity: a Wittgensteinian therapy on metaethics

Open access Jul 2026

Standing Your Ground on Moral Disagreement

Moral disagreement is often invoked to support skeptical conclusions about moral judgment, typically by modeling it on the epistemology of peer disagreement. On the dominant picture, disagreement with a peer supplies higher‐order evidence of error and thereby rationally requires suspension of judgment or a substantia...

Mario Gensollen, Marc Jiménez‐Rolland, Alejandro Mosqueda · Ratio · 0 citations

Aug 2026

Nonnaturalism and the Ineffability of Moral Normativity

Metaethical nonnaturalists claim that rival theories fail to capture the special kind of normativity that morality seems to possess. Yet, they struggle to articulate an account of moral normativity that makes clear what the naturalist is missing. While some philosophers take this struggle to show that the nonnatura...

Lucia Schwarz · Journal of Moral Philosophy · 0 citations

Aug 2026

Moral Universalism and Pluralism of Values: Revisiting Habermas’s Theory of Discourse Ethics

The concept of universalization is one of the most problematic and controversial among those pertaining to Jürgen Habermas’s theory of discourse ethics. As some critics have argued, Habermas’s requirement that moral disagreements be resolved through the identification or institution of a commonly shared interest on the...

Belén Pueyo-Ibáñez · New German Critique · 0 citations

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From Biology to Normativity

It is argued that the fact-value dichotomy, the biological reductionism and the moral absolutism or essentialism can be reconciled through the synthesis of evolutionary ethics and Deweyan pragmatism.

Yikunoamlak Mesfin Alemu · 0 citations

Open access Jul 2026

A Will to Interpret: Embodied Moral Reflexivity Under Misrecognition

This article reinterprets Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice as a framework for understanding the moral struggles of marginalised actors in everyday contexts. Growing scholarship has emphasised that moral practices encompass not only intentional and deliberative reasoning but also automatic, instant and embodied...

Junghun Oh · Journal for the Theory of So... · 0 citations

Open access Aug 2026

O bom, o mau e o neutro

The present article presents and discusses the foundations of the New Moral Realism proposed by Markus Gabriel in Ethics for Dark Times (2020), a work that extends his New Realism project into the field of ethics. Starting from a metaethical defense of moral realism, Gabriel argues that there are objective moral facts,...

Matheus Benites · Das Questões · 0 citations