Abstract

in november of 2019, the Charles S. Peirce Society convened a session at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Diego, California. That session involved the presentation of papers by four panelists, each supplying comments on Robert Neville’s recently published book on the Metaphysics of Goodness, as well as Neville’s response. The papers collected in this issue of The Pluralist are all edited versions of the remarks presented in San Diego—in the case of Neville’s comments, significantly expanded and revised. Taken together, they represent what was—as affirmed by numerous persons who attended the session—an extraordinary conversation. I was responsible for organizing and convening the panel...