My Philosophical Position [07/10] Ethics

Philosophics — Philosophical and Political Ramblings · Jul 17, 2026 · 5m

Philosopher Bry Willis discusses metaethics and his position on moral non-cognitivism.

Moral utterances express, organise, authorise, condemn, affiliate, repel, coordinate, and demand. They can be coherent, inconsistent, manipulative, compassionate, informed, ignorant, stabilising, or catastrophic. None of this requires that wrongness exist as a property available for detection.

Moral terms are often treated as though they combine descriptive authority with action-authorising force. In practice, their force arises from ontological orientations: inherited structures of salience through which…