ABSTRACT
Moral realism is the view that there are objective moral truths or moral facts. But what is it for moral truths to be “objective”? A common way of characterizing moral realism has it that the objectivity of moral truths consists in their being, in some sense, mind-independent. Thus, we are variously told, moral truths are independent of our attitudes, emotions, values, responses, perspectives, or judgments; they are “stance-independent” or independent of the “practical standpoint.” Derek Parfit (2011), for example, treats moral realism as response-independent, as does David Enoch (2011); and Jay Wallace (2012: 21) characterizes moral realism in terms of truths that are “prior to and independent of the will.”
