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Moral disagreement is a puzzling phenomenon, and perhaps a deep one that tells us something about the nature of morality. One familiar response to apparently irresolvable moral disagreements is moral relativism: the view that what is right and wrong is somehow relative to individuals, or to cultures. But even if we reject relativism, the question how we know what we know about morality remains: if we can say nothing on this score, we might end up moral skeptics. We shall look at some recent research in moral psychology (including the evolutionary perspective on morality) to help us understand where our moral judgments come from, and to what extent we can trust them.