The Moral Problem

{{Infobox book

| name = The Moral Problem

| author = Michael Andrew Smith

| image =The Moral Problem.jpg

| caption = 1st edition

| country = United States

| language = English

| subject = moral realism

| published = 1994

| publisher = Wiley-Blackwell

| media_type = Print

| pages = 242

| isbn = 978-0631192466

}}

The Moral Problem is a 1994 book by Michael Andrew Smith, in which the author tries to provide a defense of moral realism.{{cite journal |title=Ethics - Moral realism |journal=Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/ethics-philosophy/Moral-realism |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Pigden |first1=Charles R. |title=Hume, motivation and “the moral problem” |journal=Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia |date=2007 |volume=62 |issue=3 |page=199-221 |url=https://philarchive.org/rec/PIGHMA |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Breckenridge |first1=Wylie |last2=Cohen |first2=Daniel Blair |title=Has Smith Solved the Moral Problem? |journal=Acta Analytica |date=December 2019 |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=463–472 |doi=10.1007/s12136-019-00384-2 |language=en |issn=1874-6349}}

It is Smith’s most influential work for which he was awarded an American Philosophical Association book prize in 2001.{{cite web |title=Smith, Michael |url=http://www.princeton.edu/~msmith/MichaelSmithinCompaniontoPhilosophyinAustralia&NewZealand.pdf |website=A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand b}}