Moral responsibility skepticism implies that Hitler did not deserve to be morally blamed or punished, nor did Stalin or any mass murderer. The skeptical view asks us to do what is almost humanly ...

Moral skepticism has spread far beyond the books and lecture rooms of philosophy teachers and is held by thousands, perhaps millions, of people in the West. Philosophical skepticism, on the other ...

Around these parts I’m told that skepticism is a virtue but cynicism is a vice. I think that’s wrong and here I’ll explain why, starting with the relationship between open-, and closed ...

Psychologists warn that AI's perceived lack of human experience and genuine understanding may limit its acceptance to make higher-stakes moral decisions. Artificial moral advisors (AMAs) are ...

Religion has claimed a monopoly on morality for so long that we infidels are forced to explain ad nauseam why we think murder is morally reprehensible. I am tired of conceding the moral high ground to ...

Even moral scepticism, at least of any kind taken seriously by philosophers, need not entail quietism about tyranny, cruelty, or unjust discrimination.

Abstract. Abstract “Yet the Angel Must Hang” reflects on the mood of moral skepticism that pervades Billy Budd. This article examines several predicaments left unresolved by the end of the novel, ...

The moral preference for liberty and individual rights that the social psychologists found to be common among skeptics has been strengthened by the country’s deepening political polarization.

The moral scepticism that I favour undermines traditional moral systems that base morality in the commands of a god or in an idea of absolute moral good and evil, ...