Samuel Scheffler is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He spent the earlier part of the year in Britain as a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
To many people it seems obvious that science is objective in a way that ethics is not. Without being able to characterise the contrast between the objectivity of science and the subjectivity of ethics as clearly or precisely as a professional philosopher might wish, many people would nevertheless regard it as absurd to deny that such a contrast exists.
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