Andrei G. Zavaliy

He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the City University of New York, and is currently an Associate Professor of philosophy and religion at the American University of Kuwait. His research interests include the history of world religions, moral psychology, philosophy of religion, and the applicability of the experimental methods to philosophical controversies, especially in ethical theory. He serves as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of the Humanities and as the member of the editorial board of the Online Dictionary of Intercultural Philosophy.

Email: azavaliy@auk.edu.kw

Issue: 1:2 (The second issue)

The purpose of this paper is to defend a position in metaethics, saving morality from certain reductionist attempts, and arguing that a moral point of view denotes a distinct attitude toward the world with a set of relatively stable conditions. I discuss the problem of demarcation between the moral and the non-moral domains, and contrast the two basic approaches – moral neutralism and moral descriptivism.