Abstract:
Derek Parfit argues that normative
anti-realism, the thesis that all normative truths are dependent on our normative attitudes,
is a form of Nihilism, the thesis that nothing matters. I shall argue that Parfit is right:
normative anti-realism is a form of Nihilism, in the sense that it entails Nihilism. I shall
then argue, more tentatively, that this fact is grounds for us to reject
anti-realism.
