Knowledge, Reality, and Value Book Club, Part 4

Part 4 (“Ethics”) of Knowledge, Reality, and Value contains four chapters that seem extremely reasonable to me, and one that continues to strike me as deeply wrong.  As a result, I’m going to split the discussion into two parts.  This week: the extremely reasonable Chapters 13-16.  Next week: The deeply wrong Chapter 17.

As usual, I will focus almost entirely on my disagreements with Huemer’s careful, enlightening, and inspiring book.

Chapter 13: Metaethics

When defending moral realism, Huemer ...