Michele M. Moody-Adams

The persistence of deep moral disagreements—across cultures as well as within them—has created widespread scepticism about the objectivity of morality. Moral relativism, moral pessimism, and the denigration of ethics in comparison with science are the results. Fieldwork in Familiar Places challenges the misconceptions about morality, culture, and objectivity that support these scepticisms, to show that we can take moral disagreement...