Bibliography
Archer, Alfred, and Benjamin Matheson. “It was a Different Time: Judging Historical Figures by Today’s Moral Standards.” Journal of Applied Philosophy 42, no. 2 (2025): 529-546. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12713
Arvan, Marcus. “From Rational Self-Interest to liberalism: A Hole in Cofnas’s Debunking Explanation of Moral Progress.” Inquiry 67, no. 9 (2024): 3067–3086. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2021.2014357
Bagnoli, Carla. “Constructivism in Metaethics.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman. Summer 2026 Edition. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2026/entries/constructivism-metaethics/
Buchanan, Alan, and Russell Powell. “De-Moralization as Emancipation: Liberty, Progress, and the Evolution of Invalid Moral Norms.” Social Philosophy and Policy 34, no. 2 (2017). 108-135. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052517000231
Egonsson, Dan. “Moral Progress.” In International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette. New Jersey: Wiley, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444367072.wbiee843;
Huemer, Michael. “A Liberal Realist Answer to Debunking Skeptics: The Empirical Case for Realism.” Philosophical Studies 173, no. 7 (2016): 1988-1994. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-015-0588-9
Jamieson, Dale. “Slavery, Carbon, and Moral Progress.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20, no. 1 (2017): 169–183. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-016-9746-1
Jamieson, Dale. Morality’s Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Joyce, Richard. “Moral Anti-Realism.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman. Summer 2026 Edition. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2026/entries/moral-anti-realism/
Kahneman, Daniel, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2021.
Kahneman, Daniel, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2021.
Korsgaard, Christine. Sources of Normativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Lyons, Timothy D. Scientific Realism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Moody-Adams, Michele. “The Idea of Moral Progress.” Metaphilosophy 30, no. 3 (1999): 168-185. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9973.00120
Pinker, Steven. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. London: Penguin, 2011.
Sauer, Hanno, Charlie Blunden, Cecilie Eriksen, and Paul Rehren. “Moral Progress: Recent Developments.” Philosophy Compass (2021): e12769. https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12769
Silva, Laura. “Anger and Its Desires.” European Journal of Philosophy 29, no. 4 (2021): 1115–1135. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12628
Singer, Peter. The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress. Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1981] 2011.
Srinivasan, Amia. “The Aptness of Anger.” Journal of Political Philosophy 26, no. 2 (2018): 123-144. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopp.12130
Williams, Bernard. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. London: Routledge, [1985] 2010.
Zhou, Jinglin, and Yu Yang. “Moral Progress Through Conceptual Improvements: A Typology and Its Philosophical Lessons.” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 12, no. 2 (2026): 201-216. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2025.10018
