In The Myth of Morality Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse ishopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is a notion ofmoral inescapabil... » 

In The Myth of Morality Richard Joyce argues that moral discourse ishopelessly flawed. At the heart of ordinary moral judgements is a notion ofmoral inescapability or practical authority which upon investigation cannotbe reasonably defended. Joyce argues that natural selection is to blame inthat it has provided us with a tendency to invest the world with values that itdoes not contain and demands that it does not make. Should we therefore doaway with morality as we did away with other faulty notions such as witches?Possibly not. We may be able to carry on with morality as a useful fiction allowing it to have a regulative influence on our lives and decisions perhapseven playing a central role while not committing ourselves to believing orasserting falsehoods and thus not being subject to accusations of error. «