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Victor Moberger

I teach in ethics, metaethics, critical thinking, and political philosophy. My research is mainly focused on metaethics and critical thinking.

Works at

Affiliation
Associate professor at Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies Section: Philosophy
Location
A, Humanisthuset, HUM.A.135 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Academic Background

- PhD in Practical Philosophy at Uppsala University, 2018.

- Researcher at Stockholm University within the three-year project What if nothing matters? Nihilism and its implications (with Jonas Olson and Nicolas Olsson Yaouzis), funded by the Swedish Research Council, 2020–22.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

- 2017. "Not Just Errors: A New Interpretation of Mackie's Error Theory". Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 5(3): 1–12. PDF

- 2019. "The Mackiean Supervenience Challenge". Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 22(1): 219–36. Read online | PDF

- 2020. "Hume's Dictum and Metaethics". The Philosophical Quarterly, 70(279): 328–49. Read online | PDF

- 2020. "Bullshit, Pseudoscience and Pseudophilosophy". Theoria, 86(5): 595–611. Read online | PDF 

- 2022. "Non-Naturalism and Reasons-Firstism: How to Solve the Discontinuity Problem by Reducing Two Queerness Worries to One". The Journal of Ethics, 26(1): 131–54. Read online | PDF

- 2023. "Moral Fictionalism: How and Why?" (with Jonas Olson). In S. Brock and R. Joyce (eds.), Moral Fictionalism and Religious Fictionalism, 64–85. Oxford University Press. Abstract

- 2024. "The Limits of the Just-Too-Different Argument" (with Ragnar Francén). Ratio, 37(1): 64–75. Read online | PDF

- 2024. "Impossible Ethics: Do Population Ethical Impossibility Results Support Moral Skepticism and/or Anti-Realism?". Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 105(3): 370–91. Read online | PDF

- forthcoming. "Robust Normativity and the Argument from Weirdness: Revisiting Mackie's Critique". Journal of Moral Philosophy. Read online | PDF

- forthcoming. "Error Theory and Beyond" (with Jonas Olson). In D. Copp and C. Rosati (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Metaethics. Oxford University Press.

Edited Book

- 2024. Theories of Justice and Rights (by J. L. Mackie, edited together with Jonas Olson). Oxford University Press. Preview

Other Publications

- 2012. Review of Torbjörn Tännsjö, From Reasons to Norms: On the Basic Question in Ethics. Theoria, 78(1): 84–8.

- 2018. The Queerness of Objective Values: An Essay on Mackiean Metaethics and the Arguments from Queerness (doctoral dissertation, monograph). Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University. Abstract

- 2021. "Pseudophilosophy encourages confused, self-indulgent thinking". Psyche, 9 February 2021. Read online (Reproduced in the HPS&ST Newsletter, September 2021. PDF)

- 2022. "The Truth about Objective Truths". Free Inquiry, 42(6): 50–2. Read online

For publications in Swedish, please see my Swedish page.

Ratio (Oxford. Print), John Wiley & Sons 2024, Vol. 37, (1) : 64-75
Francén, Ragnar; Moberger, Victor
Oxford: Oxford University Press 2024
Mackie, John Leslie; Moberger, Victor; Olson, Jonas
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, John Wiley & Sons 2024, Vol. 105, (3) : 370-391
Moberger, Victor
Sans, Fri tanke 2023, Vol. 13, (3) : 97-97
Moberger, Victor
Sans, Fri tanke 2023, Vol. 13, (2) : 64-69
Moberger, Victor
Filosofisk Tidskrift, Bokförlaget Thales 2023, Vol. 44, (2) : 57-62
Moberger, Victor
Filosofisk Tidskrift, Stockholm: Thales 2023, Vol. 44, (3) : 11-23
Moberger, Victor
Moral fictionalism and religious fictionalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2023 : 64-85
Moberger, Victor; Olson, Jonas
Free Inquiry, Vol. 42, (6) : 50-52
Moberger, Victor
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2021
Franzén, Nils; Moberger, Victor; Risberg, Olle