Moral Beliefs and Moral Theory

Some time ago I wrote a book (Moral Language, 1982) in which I argued that moral judgments are capable of being true (''truth-apt,'' to use a current phrase, or descriptive and having truth-value, to use a more traditional term), that the methods of discovering moral facts are fundamentally similar to those of discovering non-moral facts, and that moral judgments may be true. What I did not do at ...