David Enoch is an ethicist and philosopher of law with research interests in moral, political and legal philosophy within the analytic tradition.
[1] 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] 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.
[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.