Article: Formulating Moral Objectivity

Elizabeth Tropman

Abstract: Objective moral facts are supposed to be independent from us, but
it has proven difficult to provide a clear account of this independence condition. Objective
moral facts cannot be overly independent of us, as even an objective morality would
depend, in important respects, on features of us. The challenge is to respect these moral
mind-dependencies without inappropriately counting too many moral facts as objective.
In this paper, I delineate and evaluate several different versions of the independence
condition in moral objectivity. I raise problems for these ways of formulating moral
objectivity and then develop a better account of moral objectivity, one that avoids the
pitfalls of other proposals.