#1030 Joel Marks: Are Moral Values Objective?

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a returned guest, Dr. Joel Marks. He's professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of New Haven and bioethics center scholar at Yale University. I'm also leaving a link to our first interview where we talked a lot about moral anti-realism, desirism and topics like that, and today

We're going to focus mostly on his book, The Spread, and other essays on moralism and guilt, but we're also going to talk more generally about moral realism and anti-realism, desirism and other related topics. So Dr. Marx, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to have you one. Thank you, Ricardo.

Very nice to be back with you. So let me start by asking you then, also because to try to contextualize the conversation here a little bit and talking about moral realism and anti-realism, where would you say morals stem from? Well, I I think there must be several answers to that question. For example, a biologist, of course, or a social biologist might look for an evolutionary answer, a Darwinian answer. Somehow morality has served a purpose contributing to the survival of our species, or at the very least has not inhibited.

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