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Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite complex ways. But realism, being a view about the status of such normative theories, insists that the truth of any firstorder normative standard is not a function of what anyone happens to think of it.

Russ Shafer-Landau

Russ Shafer-Landau

Russ Shafer-Landau

Born: February 18, 1963 (age 61)

Bio: Russ Shafer-Landau is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he is also Director of the Parr Center for Ethics.

Known for:

The Fundamentals of Ethics (2009)
Oxford Studies in Metaethics (2006)
Moral Realism: A Defence (2003)
Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? (2004)

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