Pragmatist Quietism: A Meta-Ethical System

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By Andrew Sepielli ’01

Published Sept. 23, 2022

Many believe that there cannot be objective ethical truths, as they would require justification from outside the world of ethics. Sepielli, author of Pragmatist Quietism (Oxford University Press), disagrees — an ethical worldview can be built on meta-ethics alone. Using pragmatism to assess value, rather than attempting to represent the world as we know it, Sepielli shares a bold new way of thinking about morality.

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