The best explanation for this irreducible moral disagreement is that moral judgments express non-cognitive attitudes rather than tracking knowable moral truths (as Blackburn's quasi-realism and Gibbard's expressivism argue).
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Simon Blackburn(as an example philosopher representing anti-realist views)
A prominent British philosopher who developed sophisticated versions of anti-realism, particularly about morality and other abstract concepts.
expressivism(Metaethics / philosophy of language)
A metaethical view on which ethical sentences express mental states different from beliefs, with proposed candidates including exclamations, commands, and plans
moral judgments(as used in ethics)
Decisions or conclusions about what is right, wrong, good, or bad—like deciding whether lying is acceptable or if helping others is important.
moral truths(Society-centered moral naturalism as developed by Copp)
Truths grounded in moral standards concerning codes that would enable societies to meet their basic needs, including continued existence, stable cooperation among members, internal harmony, and peaceful relations with other societies
quasi-realism(Blackburn 1984)
Blackburn's favored terminology for a form of non-cognitivism/expressivism that seeks to earn the right to realist-sounding moral discourse.