ABSTRACT

In this chapter, I briefly recapitulate the book’s main theses and defend its findings against two worries (according to which they are too narrow and too agnostic or negative). I explicate and elaborate on several general positive insights. These insights correspond to four distinctive features of the book’s approach: its comprehensiveness, empirical focus, clarificatory focus and metatheoretical considerations. I also express some general thoughts about the empirical sciences’ relationship to the moral realism/anti-realism debate, to metaethics and to philosophy.