James Fritz

Kit Fine and Agustín Rayo suggest that some necessary truths are transcendental. These truths are not based in the world and so do not depend upon what exists. I suggest that moral principles are transcendental. This allows for a radically non-ontological form of metaethical non-naturalism; it makes plausible the idea (expressed by both G.E. Moore and Derek Parfit) that though there are judgment-independent moral truths, these truths do not depend upon reality and so do not require a moral ontology. The resulting view poses both a specific challenge to traditional forms of non-naturalism and a general challenge to any metaethical view that assumes that moral ontology is fundamental and moral truths are derivative.