{"podcast":{"title":"The Uncertainty Podcast","slug":"the-uncertainty-podcast-7089022","podcast_index_feed_id":7089022,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2770715.rss","website_url":"https://mileskdonahue.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2770715/103a86bed70977c39ac1021809009112.jpg","author":"Miles K. Donahue","episode_count":89,"summary":"I am a philosophy graduate and host of the Uncertainty podcast, featuring discussions with Tim Maudlin, William Lane Craig, Graham Oppy, Robin Collins, and others.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-04T18:17:12.802461+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-uncertainty-podcast-7089022"},"episode":{"title":"#61 Why This Oxford Professor Thinks Morality is Objective - David Enoch","slug":"61-why-this-oxford-professor-thinks-morality-is-objective-david-enoch","published_at":"2025-12-04T19:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-uncertainty-podcast-7089022/61-why-this-oxford-professor-thinks-morality-is-objective-david-enoch","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-uncertainty-podcast-7089022","url":"https://mileskdonahue.substack.com/p/61-david-enoch-why-this-oxford-professor-f3e","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/183154418/ff167969cec2416945c840cd832e9370.mp3","summary":"Dr. David Enoch, author of "Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism," joins me to discuss moral realism versus anti-realism, objections from the moral error theorist, and my personal sticking points in affirming the existence of irreducible moral facts: moral disagreement across cultures and evolutionary explanations for our moral beliefs. Buy David's book defending robust moral realism . To support the channel, do please oh please consider donating via⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PayPal⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy Me a Coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Feel free to follow me ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . EPISODE CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Introduction 00:07:23 Naturalism vs. non-naturalism 00:19:23 Why should we reject moral error theory? 00:32:32 The revisionary costs of error theory 00:43:34 Intuition as our only ground for moral realism? 00:47:45 The connection to ethical intuitionism 00:51:19 Objection #1 - Moral disagreement 01:03:18 Moral skepticism 01:06:20 Objection #2 - Evolutionary debunking arguments 01:16:16 Is God required to explain objective morality? 01:20:45 Are most philosophers moral realists? Get full access to Miles K. Donahue at mileskdonahue.substack.com/subscribe","meta_description":"Dr. David Enoch, author of \"Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism,\" joins me to discuss moral realism versus anti-realism, obje…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5104,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-uncertainty-podcast-7089022/episodes/61-why-this-oxford-professor-thinks-morality-is-objective-david-enoch/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-uncertainty-podcast-7089022/61-why-this-oxford-professor-thinks-morality-is-objective-david-enoch.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}