Enoch is a member of the Israeli Law Professors' Forum for Democracy, established in 2023 to analyze and address of the various reforms proposed by Israel’s 37th Government to change Israel’s democratic regime.[3]
Philosophy
In metaethics, Enoch defends[4] “Robust Realism”, the view according to which there are objective, universal, non-natural moral truths, truths that when successful in our moral inquiries we discover rather than create, that don’t constitutively depend on us and our dispositions.
In political philosophy, Enoch criticizes Rawlsian versions of liberalism,[5] and is developing a non-Rawlsian liberalism, that is sensitive to the concerns of the real world,[6] and that attempts to incorporate the insights of liberalism’s critics.[7]
In legal philosophy, Enoch criticizes common ways of doing general jurisprudence,[8] and works on specific normative questions concerning the law, for instance, when it comes to moral and legal luck,[9] or to the status of statistical evidence.[10][11]
In ethics, Enoch defends moral deference,[12] and the views that consent should be understood contrastively,[13] that a distinction within the value of autonomy helps to clarify the status of hypothetical consent,[14] and that the intending-foreseeing distinction is suspicious – especially when applied to state action.[15]
^“False Consciousness for Liberals, Part I: Consent, Autonomy, and Adaptive Preferences”, The Philosophical Review 129 (2020), 159-210
^“Is General Jurisprudence Interesting?” in Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence (edited by David Plunkett, Scott Shapiro, and Kevin Toh) (Oxford University Press, 2019).
^“Luck between Morality, Law and Justice”, Theoretical Inquiries in Law 9 (2008), 23-59; “Moral Luck and the Law”, Philosophy Compass 5 (2010), 42-54.
^“Statistical Evidence, Sensitivity, and the Legal Value of Knowledge” (with Levi Spectre and Talia Fisher), Philosophy and Public Affairs 40 (2012), 197-224
^David Enoch, “Sense and Sensitivity” (with Talia Fisher), Stanford Law Review 67 (2015), 557-611
Cuneo, Terence (October 2012). "Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism, by David Enoch". Mind (Review). 121 (484): 1059–1064. doi:10.1093/mind/fzs093. ISSN0026-4423.
