New Essays on Normative Realism

It''s difficult to explain the point of normative judgments--judgments like ''You ought to donate to charity,'' or ''You ought to believe that smoking is bad for you, given the evidence''--without assuming that such judgments express objective truths. And yet philosophers have always been puzzled by such a ''realism'' about the normative, for an array of conceptual, epistemological, and metaphysic...