Abstract

Abstract: According to Russ Shafer-Landau, skeptical theories imply the impossibility of (robust) moral progress, the moral equivalence between opposing moral positions, and moral infallibility. Non-skeptical theory called objectivismwould apparently incur in moral absolutism, in denial of diversity and moral disagreement, and in the adoption of a metaphysics incompatible with the scientific worldview. Shafer-Landau, however, disagrees that this holds for moral realism. This paper presents and analyzes some argumentative steps present in this debate.

Keywords: metaethics, moral realism, moral skepticism.