Enoch's 'just-so story' response—that moral realists can posit pre-established harmony between evolutionary fitness and moral truth—introduces an unexplained coincidence that is itself epistemically costly and methodologically ad hoc.
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Methodologically ad hoc(Criticizing Enoch's approach as a quick fix rather than a principled solution)
A solution made up just to fix one specific problem, without fitting into a broader, coherent system of explanation.
Moral truth(what Street's argument questions)
The idea that some moral statements are objectively true or false—not just opinions—the way 'the Earth orbits the Sun' is objectively true.
moral realism(Used interchangeably here with moral objectivism)
The view that moral facts are objective — that is, that moral claims can be true or false independently of what any individual or culture believes
pre-established harmony(Leibniz's early career writings; introduced to resolve the tension between the independence of substances and the requirement that each represent the whole universe)
A doctrine introduced on truth-theoretical grounds, holding that God, in his goodness and preference for a maximally harmonious world, has established that each substance truly represents all other substances in the universe, even though finite substances exist independently of one another.