title: Empirical ethics and its alleged meta-ethical fallacies.
abstract: This paper analyses the concept of empirical ethics as well as three meta-ethical fallacies that empirical ethics is said to face: the is-ought problem, the naturalistic fallacy and violation of the fact-value distinction. Moreover, it answers the question of whether empirical ethics (necessarily) commits these three basic meta-ethical fallacies.
authors.affiliation: Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, IQ Healthcare, Section Ethics, Philosophy & History of Medicine, The Netherlands. r.devries@iq.umcn.nl
authors.forename: Rob
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: de Vries
authors.forename: Bert
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gordijn