Moral Anti-Realists tell a different story to that of Moral Realists. According to them, there are no moral facts or properties. If so, what are we doing when we say moral statements such as ‘murder is wrong’?
To be an Anti-Realist, we are looking to reject one or more of the premises in the Correspondence Theory [...]

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Let’s begin the debate by focussing on the possibility that there are objectively existing moral facts. Realist views accept the existence of objective moral properties. To put this in perspective, think about what this would be saying.
When we make moral statements such as ‘murder is bad’, we talk as though there are moral facts or [...]

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Also known as ‘Moderate’ or ‘Actualist’ Modal Realism.
Unlike Lewis’s Genuine Modal Realism, EMR has varied tenets and thus I will only outline some of the differences to GMR.
In contrast to Lewis’s GMR, EMR theories do not take other possible worlds to be concretely existing (the main reason for not wanting to accept Lewis’s theory), they [...]

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