Russ Shafer-Landau has written a book-length defense of this philosophical position.
Russ Shafer-Landau has written a book-length defense of this philosophical position. An analogy in which a failed freshman chemistry experiment does not invalidate the atomic laws of gases was used to defend this position by Nicholas Sturgeon against Gilbert Harman. Bernard Williams argued that this position is inconsistent, by noting that conflicts are not soluble "without remainder." One philosopher opposed this position by pointing out that it would require a strange and unique perceptual faculty all its own; that is the "argument from (*) queerness" against this. John McDowell defended this position by analogizing value properties to secondary rather than primary qualities. This position is usually understood to entail cognitivism and "success theory," and was opposed by J.L. Mackie's "error theory." A non-cognitivist variant proposed by Simon Blackburn is its "quasi" form. For 10 points, name this position that ethical statements express factual truths.
Russ Shafer-Landau has written a book-length defense of this philosophical position.
moral realism [or ethical realism; or moral objectivism; or ethical objectivism; prompt on "realism" or "objectivism"]