Erik J. Wielenberg
There can be objective moral truths without God: some moral facts are basic and need no foundation.
Life
Erik J. Wielenberg, born in 1972, is an American philosopher who taught at DePauw University. He defends the existence of objective moral truths without God: some moral facts are basic and need no divine foundation. He also examines moral arguments for God's existence and atheist replies to the problem of meaning.
Main works
Argues that a life of value and virtue is possible in a godless universe.
Weighs what reason can establish about God in C. S. Lewis, Hume and Russell.
Defends a non-naturalist ethics in which some moral facts are fundamental.
Positions
click a row to see the evidenceHe is an atheist who argues that a godless universe still has objective value and virtue.
Wielenberg, Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe (2005)
He defends robust moral realism: some ethical facts are basic and objective, and need no foundation in God.
Wielenberg, Robust Ethics (2014)