New Essays on Normative Realism

Paul Boghossian, Silver Professor of Philosophy, New York University,Christopher Peacocke, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Columbia University

Paul Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He was previously Associate Professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Visiting Professor at Princeton, and Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written and lectured on a wide range of issues in epistemology, metaphysics, the theory of meaning and concepts, the nature of rules, self-knowledge, color, the aesthetics of music, and the concept of genocide.


Christopher Peacocke taught for many years in London and Oxford, eventually as Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, before moving to New York University in 2000. He has been at Columbia University since 2004, where he is currently the Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has delivered the Whitehead Lectures at Harvard, the Kant Lectures at Stanford, the Evans Lecture at Oxford, and the Nicod Lectures in the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.

1. Normative Realism: An Introduction to the Issues, Paul Boghossian and Christopher Peacocke2. Moral Realism: A Rationalist Metaphysics-First Treatment, Christopher Peacocke3. On Foundational Moral Knowledge, Declan Smithies4. Ethics: How Hard Can It Be?, Sarah McGrath5. How to Be a Relativist About Normativity, Sharon Street6. Alternative Concepts, Ardor, and Elusive Questions, Matti Eklund7. Objectivity as a Normative Notion (Twice Over), Shamik Dasgupta8. Minimalism, the Synthetic A Priori, and Alternative Normative Concepts, Paul Boghossian9. What Is Logical Monism?, Justin Clarke-Doane10. Normative Authority, John BengsonTerence CuneoRuss Shafer-Landau11. Normativity from the First-Person Perspective, Claire Kirwin12. Is There Reason? Are There Reason-Forces?, John Broome13. The Reality of Primitive Norms, Hannah Ginsborg14. How to Build a Normative Creature, Michael Tomasello andIvan Gonzalez-Cabrera15. Kant on the Aesthetic Normativity of Colors and Tones, Samantha Matherne16. The Objective Prescriptive Core of Morality, Mark Johnston17. The Explanatory Role of Moral Principles, Gideon Rosen18. Realism, Particularism, and Grounding in Aesthetics, Antonia Peacocke19. Reflections on Wittgenstein on the Normativity of Arithmetic, Crispin Wright