Should we be moral skeptics?

I’m thinking…

We are awash with moral statements. Just check the news headlines and you’ll see that moral judgment and outrage are everywhere, especially on social media. But what if it turned out that there are no good basis for moral judgments in the first place? Welcome to moral skepticism, the denial that anyone actually possesses moral knowledge.

According to a fascinating essay by Richard Joyce, published in the collection Skepticism: From Antiquity to the Present (edited by Diego Machuca an...