Objections to Desirism: The Relationship between Wrongness and Condemnation

[Note: This is taken from Chapter 6, Section 2 of my Ph.D. dissertation. It concerns the objection that desirism gets the order of explanation wrong. Desirism says that something is wrong because people have reasons to condemn it, rather than saying that we condemn something because it is wrong. The dissertation refers to desirism is the reform theory since it presents desirism as a modified…