ABSTRACT

Even if normative realism is a perfectly coherent and otherwise plausible view, it can seem very hard to square with other things we believe. Perhaps most obviously, it can seem hard to square with the belief that people’s ultimate reasons for action are partly agent-relative in character. However, as constructivists have argued, it can also seem hard to square with common beliefs about the content and the authority of morality. And many of the constructivists’ worries about morality can seem to retain their force even after the worries about agent-relativity have been addressed.