In the series of extracts I am publishing from my book-that-is-almost-finished on the history of moral thought we have reached Chapter 18, which explores the contemporary debates about the relationship between science and morality, from Joshua Greene’s work to Sam Harris’ arguments. This extract is from the section that unpacks Alex Rosenberg’s arguments about morality in his book The Atheist’s Guide to Reality. The desire to root morality in science derives from a laudable aspiration to demonstrate the redundancy of […]

Categories: History of moral thought, Science • Tags: alex rosenberg, atheism, emotivism, euthyphro dilemma, evolutionary ethics, jl mackie, moral nihilism, morality, scientism