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It's Very Hard To Explain The Point Of Normative Judgments - Judgments Like 'you Ought To Donate To Charity,' Or 'you Ought To Believe That Smoking Is Bad For You, Given The Evidence' - Without Assuming That Such Judgments Express Objective Truths. And Yet Philosophers Have Always Been Puzzled By Such A 'realism' About The Normative, For An Array Of Conceptual, Epistemological And Metaphysical Reasons. This Book Gathers Together A Collection Of New Essays On This Classic Philosophical Problem, Authored By A Mix Of Senior And Junior Contributors. Taken Together They Illustrate The Great Progress That Has Been Made On These Fundamental But Thorny Issues. They Also Introduce Some New Puzzles About Normative Realism Which Had Not Been Previously Appreciated-- Provided By Publisher.