Frederick Rauscher is a contemporary American philosopher specializing in Kantian ethics and metaethics. He defends a form of moral realism grounded in the Kantian tradition, arguing that moral and aesthetic excellence are objective features of the world rather than subjective projections. His work engages questions of normativity, value theory, and the foundations of practical reason.
Defended objectivism about moral and aesthetic value against projectivist and anti-realist accounts
Contributed to Kantian interpretations of practical reason and normative foundations
Engaged with contemporary metaethics on the status of evaluative properties
Work at the intersection of ethics and aesthetics regarding objective excellence