ABSTRACT
According to the presumptive argument, we have prima facie reason to believe that morality is a realm of objective truths because ordinary people experience morality as such a realm. In this chapter, I address this argument’s empirical hypothesis. First, I explain in which sense ordinary people would have to experience morality as a realm of objective truths in order for the presumptive argument to work. Then I argue that recent research on folk moral realism does not support the hypothesis in this sense (mainly because this research lacks in construct validity).
