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Shelly Kagan

    January 1, 1956

    Shelly Kagan is a professor of philosophy at Yale University. His work systematically reviews alternative positions concerning the basic rules of morality and their possible foundations. Kagan challenges widely shared beliefs about the requirements of morality. His research currently focuses on the geometry of desert.

    Answering Moral Skepticism
    • This book is an accessible defence of the belief in objective morality. Most books on metaethics-the part of moral philosophy that investigates the existence and nature of morality-primarily discuss problems that particularly intrigue specialists in the field. Answering Moral Skepticism focuses instead on examining the worries about morality that are more likely to trouble ordinary reflective individuals.

      Answering Moral Skepticism