People who are primed with "moral realism" may be motivated to better moral behavior. Researchers assess the impact of meta-ethics on everyday decision-making in a new report. Getting people to ...

He praises their uncynical, inspiring enthusiasm, but then chastises them for lacking moral realism. No amount of social entrepreneurism will do much good, he says, “unless you are willing to ...

At the level of everyday practical reasoning, there's nothing wrong with this. But if we're trying to set up a careful foundation for moral philosophy, we should be honest and admit that the logic ...

Choices matter. And that’s where the moral failings of realism come in. Realists tend to conflate the interests of rulers with the interests of the ruled. It’s hard to find a sane analyst who ...

Some of them are reasons for accepting moral realism, which is the view that there are some objective moral truths. Other arguments against relativism point out some of the problematic ...

In two experiments, one conducted in-person and the other online, participants were primed to consider a belief in either moral realism (the notion that morals are like facts) or moral antirealism ...

Since "real" moral stakes may be accompanied by "real" consequences —whether good (e.g., helping others, enhanced self-esteem) or bad (e.g., retribution), priming a belief in moral realism may ...