Moral Disagreement

Folke Tersman explores what moral disagreement can reveal about how moral thinking works. The book begins from the fact that people disagree widely on moral issues, and asks what that fact means for the status of moral convictions.

His central claim is that diversity of opinion weakens the case for treating moral convictions as objective. Tersman presses the point against theories that struggle to account for why ethics stands apart from other fields, where disagreement is just as common yet nobody abandons the idea of a correct answer.

The book is pitched at students and scholars of moral philosophy and metaethics, and it suits anyone who wants to test the case for moral objectivity against the evidence of disagreement.

Bibliographic details: published by Cambridge University Press, with the ISBN-13 9780521853385.