Papers Published

1. D. Wong, "Integrating Philosophy with Anthropology in an Approach to Morality", Anthropological Theory, vol. 14 no. 3 (2014), pp. 336-55.
   (last updated on 2014/08/06)

   Abstract:
   Philosophy and anthropology need to integrate their accounts of what a morality is. I identify three desiderata that an account of morality should satisfy: 1) recognize significant diversity and variation in the major kinds of value; 2) specify a set of criteria for what counts as a morality; and 3) indicate the basis for distinguishing between more or less justifiable moralities, or true and false moralities. I will discuss why these three desiderata are hard to satisfy at the same time, and why they are controversial. Anthropologists and philosophers will differ on which ones they are inclined to reject. I argue that all three should be accepted and can be satisfied.