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Victor Moberger

I teach in ethics, metaethics, critical thinking, and political philosophy. I specialize in metaethics and my research mainly focuses on the debate between moral realism and anti-realism.

Works as

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

- Associate professor in philosophy at Umeå University since 2022.

- 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.

- PhD in practical philosophy from Uppsala University, 2018.

 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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

- 2025. "How to Argue for the Error Theory" (with Jonas Olson). International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 15(4): 307–22. Read online | PDF

- 2025. "Moral Facts Are Magic Tricks". In C. Sosis (ed.), Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny, 143–51. Routledge. Abstract

- 2025. "Robust Normativity and the Argument from Weirdness: Revisiting Mackie's Critique". Journal of Moral Philosophy, 22(3–4): 283–313. 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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

 

Edited Book

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

 

Dissertation

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

 

Other Publications

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

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

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

 

For publications in Swedish, please see my Swedish page.

Too weird to believe, too plausible to deny: mind-blowing philosophical ideas, New York: Routledge 2025 : 143-151
Moberger, Victor
Journal of Moral Philosophy, Brill Academic Publishers 2025, Vol. 22 : 283-313
Moberger, Victor
Filosofisk Tidskrift, Thales 2025, Vol. 46, (4) : 58-62
Moberger, Victor
International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, Brill Academic Publishers 2025, Vol. 15 : 307-322
Moberger, Victor; Olson, Jonas
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
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, Thales 2024, Vol. 28, (2-3) : 15-30
Moberger, Victor
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, Thales 2024, Vol. 28, (2-3) : 5-14
Moberger, Victor; Olson, Jonas
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, Thales 2024, Vol. 28, (2-3) : 2-4
Moberger, Victor; Olson, Jonas; Olsson Yaouzis, Nicolas
Sans, Fri tanke 2023, Vol. 13, (3) : 97-97
Moberger, Victor
Sans, Fri tanke 2023, Vol. 13, (2) : 64-69
Moberger, Victor
Filosofisk Tidskrift, Stockholm: Thales 2023, Vol. 44, (3) : 11-23
Moberger, Victor
Filosofisk Tidskrift, Thales 2023, Vol. 44, (2) : 57-62
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
Journal of Ethics, Springer Nature 2022, Vol. 26, (1) : 131-154
Moberger, Victor
Filosofisk Tidskrift, Thales 2022, Vol. 43, (1) : 24-41
Moberger, Victor
Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2021
Franzén, Nils; Moberger, Victor; Risberg, Olle
The Philosophical Quarterly, Oxford University Press 2020, Vol. 70, (279) : 328-349
Moberger, Victor
Theoria, John Wiley & Sons 2020, Vol. 86, (5) : 595-611
Moberger, Victor
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Springer 2019, Vol. 22, (1) : 219-236
Moberger, Victor
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, Thales 2018, Vol. 22, (3) : 1-15
Moberger, Victor
Filosofisk Tidskrift, Thales 2018, Vol. 39, (2) : 27-42
Moberger, Victor
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, Thales 2018, Vol. 22, (1) : 38-45
Moberger, Victor
Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, McMaster University Library 2017, Vol. 5, (3) : 1-12
Moberger, Victor
Filosofisk Tidskrift, Thales 2016, Vol. 37, (1) : 21-33
Moberger, Victor
Folkvett, (4) : 33-51
Moberger, Victor
Folkvett, (1) : 60-63
Moberger, Victor
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, Vol. 17, (2) : 38-40
Moberger, Victor
Theoria, Blackwell Publishing 2012, Vol. 78, (1) : 84-88
Moberger, Victor
Filosofisk Tidskrift, Thales 2012, Vol. 33, (1) : 31-37
Moberger, Victor
Tidskrift för politisk filosofi, Vol. 16, (3) : 56-61
Moberger, Victor
Folkvett, (4) : 7-38
Moberger, Victor