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A Critique of a Recent Survey Purporting to Show Most Americans Reject Moral Realism

1.0 New Survey Reports Most Americans Reject Moral Realism

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Unwinnable games, unintelligibility, and appeals to incredulity

1.0 The unintelligibility thesis

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March 2026

Is Moral Realism In A Pickle?

A recording from Lance S. Bush and Tommy Blanchard's live video

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Moral realism: winning converts or fashionable trend?

(Note: I’ll be using moral objectivism and moral realism interchangeably here, though it’s worth flagging that not everyone does so.)

Mar 19 • Lance S. Bush

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Did a recent study show most children are moral realists?

1.0 Introduction

Mar 17 • Lance S. Bush

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"It just seems..." is not a good way to argue

Over at Bentham’s Newsletter, Bentham’s Bulldog argues that selfishness is irrational. The specifics of the argument aren’t relevant to any points I…

Mar 13 • Lance S. Bush

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Top-down and Bottom-up Concepts

A response to "Is moral knowledge possible?"

Mar 7 • Lance S. Bush

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February 2026

TL;DR version of "Nothing Can “Give” You a Reason"

Since my critique of Bentham’s post about normative reasons was extremely long and most people won’t read it, I will offer a tl;dr version.

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Nothing Can “Give” You a Reason

Reification, pragmatics, and desire-reductivism

Feb 19 • Lance S. Bush

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January 2026

Pragmatism & Prediction

Some time ago, Mike Huemer wrote an article discussing “absurd” theories of truth. I don’t want to address the article as a whole, but instead want to…

Jan 13 • Lance S. Bush

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I don't care if I should care if moral realism is true

1.0 Introduction

Jan 3 • Lance S. Bush

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December 2025

The role of intuitions in philosophy with Jennifer Nado

Here I discuss the role of intuitions in philosophy with Jennifer Nado:

Dec 29, 2025 • Lance S. Bush

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