David Enoch (philosopher)

David Enoch is an ethicist and philosopher of law with research interests in moral, political and legal philosophy within the analytic tradition. He is the co-director of the Center for Moral and Political Philosophy and has been the Rodney Blackman Chair in the Philosophy of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 2005.[1][2] He received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and Bachelor of Laws degrees from Tel Aviv University in 1993. He then completed his PhD in philosophy at New York University in 2003.[1]

David Enoch
EducationTel Aviv University (B.A., LL.B.)
New York University (PhD)
Notable workTaking Morality Seriously (2011)
EraContemporary philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
ThesisA Defense of Robust Meta-Normative Realism (2003)
Doctoral advisorsDerek Parfit, Thomas Nagel, Hartry Field[1]
Main interests
Moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of law
WebsitePersonal website

His Book "Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism"

In his book "Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism", Enoch puts forward a metaethical-realist account of morality, and of normativity in general. According to his view, moral norms and moral facts in particular, and normative ones in general are objective, in the sense that they are not dependent on social norms or beliefs, but only contingently. Likewise, moral norms/facts/propositions are all non-naturalistically reducible, meaning they cannot be fully specified without the use of moral language. For example, a naturalistic account of morality might be "greatest happiness to greatest numbers", which thus can be understood in empirical sense by happiness measurements; while a non-naturalistic account requires the existence of moral facts which are of all different nature of the empirical. Enoch further states that even those who believe otherwise are obliged to his robust realistic account, every time they deliberate. Enoch further explains that morality is accessible to us via critical thinking, and its truth value is derived from normative facts, which are external to the natural world. Thus, one may state a moral claim, and by doing so he/she will be saying something that may be true or false, and the truth value is entwined with the normative fact. Nonetheless, Enoch's opinion is that the question how is it that we manage to have moral truth accessible to us is the biggest challenge to moral realism.

Books
  • Enoch, David (28 July 2011). Taking Morality Seriously. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579969.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-957996-9.[3]

References
  1. "David Enoch CV" (PDF). The Hebrew University Philosophy Department and Faculty of Law. Hebrew University of Jerusalem. August 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 September 2021.
  2. "Prof David Enoch". Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Archived from the original on 13 February 2017.
  3. Reviews of Taking Morality Seriously:


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