''Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity'' is a 1996 book by

Gilbert Harman Gilbert Harman (May 26, 1938 – November 13, 2021) was an American philosopher, who taught at Princeton University from 1963 until his retirement in 2017. He published widely in philosophy of language, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, eth ...

and

Judith Jarvis Thomson Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experimen ...

, in which Harman tries to provide a defense of

moral relativism Moral relativism or ethical relativism (often reformulated as relativist ethics or relativist morality) is used to describe several Philosophy, philosophical positions concerned with the differences in Morality, moral judgments across different p ...

and Thomson tries to refute it.

Reception

The book was reviewed by L. Gordon Graham,

Simon Blackburn Simon Walter Blackburn (born 12 July 1944) is an English philosopher known for his work in metaethics, where he defends quasi-realism, and in the philosophy of language. More recently, he has gained a large general audience from his efforts ...

Margaret Gilbert Margaret Gilbert (born 1942) is a British philosopher who contributed to the foundations of the analytic philosophy of social phenomena. She also made substantial contributions to the fields of political philosophy, the philosophy of law, and eth ...

and

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. Michael A. Smith calls it "an introduction to meta-ethics of the very best kind."

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Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity
1996 non-fiction books English-language non-fiction books Ethics books Moral relativism Wiley-Blackwell books Philosophical debates {{philo-book-stub