Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Dr. Matt Lutz defends moral error theory, the two-part thesis that (i) our moral claims are capable of being true or false, but (ii) because there is no objective morality, all of them are false.

A list of Dr. Lutz's publications: philpeople.org/profiles/matthew-lutz

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EPISODE CHAPTERS
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:13 What is moral error theory?
00:03:46 Non-cognitivism in ethics
00:19:32 Motivation for non-cognitivism
00:25:00 Ethical naturalism vs. non-naturalism
00:54:30 Is there an objective morality?
00:58:21 Epistemological objections to realism
01:11:00 Miles' two responses to arguments for error theory