Objections to Desirism: Inescapability of Moral Claims

Richard Joyce argues that all moral claims must be false because moral claims are "inescapable". One cannot deny that one is under an obligation by arguing that has no interest in doing that action. No real-world property is inescapable in this way. However, desirism makes claims that are inescapable without postulating anything but desires and the act types they evaluate. One cannot escape the…